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Welcome to the JOSM online help system!

Getting Started

Within this wiki

• Introduction to JOSM
• How Tos about JOSM
• Audio mapping: playing voice notes and synchronizing them with your GPS tracks in JOSM
• Keyboard shortcuts

In the OSM-wiki

• ​JOSM page
• ​JOSM Guide

Openstreetmap in general

• ​Openstreetmap wiki
• ​FAQ about OSM in general
• ​Map features

Concepts

• Objects - explains what objects maps consist of and how these objects are described in detail
• Conflict - explains the basics of conflicts, why they occur, how they are detected and how you can resolve them
• Changeset - explains why you create a changeset when you upload data to the OSM server

JOSM interface

The Main Menu and its submenus File, Edit, View, Tools, Selection, Presets, Imagery, Windows, Audio and Help lead the way to all possible actions in JOSM. A search allows to find every item. Both the Main Toolbar under the menu and the Edit Toolbar on the left side allow instant access to actions and data.

The Main Area is called Map View. It is for editing the map objects. It has a close relation to the panels in the Toggle Dialogs on the right side. The panels allow to view and to edit the tags of the selected objects.

The Status Bar informs about the drawing position, the highlighted object and the working mode. Not shown here are the dialogs for Preferences, for Changesets, for Conflicts and the Relation Editor.

JOSM Plugins

• A list of available plugins can be found at the plugin page
• Plugin descriptions within JOSM help
• Information and Documentation about various JOSM plugins can also be found starting from the ​JOSM-Plugin page in the OSM-wiki

JOSM error messages

• Error messages