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JOSM Map Styles
The JOSM map display can be easily customized with different styles. Many styles are included with JOSM by default.
There are base styles (e.g. JOSM standard or Potlatch 2) that cover a wide range of features each. They can be combined with add-on styles that cover more special topics. See the available styles list below.
Further customization is possible via style options or by creating your own style.
Choose styles
JOSM has three lists of map styles: available styles (all styles from the style repository) → active styles (your favourites) → ☑ chosen styles (actually used for the map painting).
JOSM comes with some styles being in the "active styles" list by default. You can choose styles from this list of "active styles" to be actually used for the map painting by clicking the check box (☑) at the desired style's line
- in the map paint style dialog or
- in the "View" menu ( → "Map paint styles") or
- in the Map Paint Styles Preferences (see section below)
Note that, unless you are working with add-on styles, likely you want to have only one style ☑ checked at a time.
Activating more styles
Instructions:
- Open the Map Paint Styles preferences
- via the header of the Map Paint Styles panel with the
Preferences button or 
- via View menu → Map paint styles → Map paint preferences or
- via the general preferences dialog Menu Edit → Preferences → Map Paint Styles
- via the header of the Map Paint Styles panel with the
- Choose a style in the list of Available styles (left side)
- Activate it by clicking the
blue right arrow button between the lists.
- Exit and confirm by clicking the OK button
Example: Let's assume that you want to add maxspeed=* tags to OSM, then you probably will make use of the style Maxspeed (which displays the value of maxspeed on roads with different colors). The screencast/animation on the right side (click to enlarge) shows how to add this style to your list of "active styles".
Adding own styles
You can add own styles (from any URL/file) to the list of active styles – for example a style file which you have created yourself. Just click the 
plus sign on the right and enter either path and filename or URL of your style file.
Available styles list
| short description | author | description | version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | (Basic) Indoor map | yopaseopor | Visualization of basic tagging in indoor mapping for JOSM More details | 1_2019-03-08 |
| Address Tags Validator | Antisida, CupIvan, Felis Pimeja, Zverik | Coloring of buildings with or without addr:street, addr:housenumber (deprecated, use 'Coloured streets style' instead.) | 1.18_2020-10-05 | |
 | Admin Boundaries | pierzen | Colors Admin Boundary Polygons and nodes. It Helps monitor and edit Boundaries. Parameter options let select Admin levels to show. | 1.7_2024-09-04 |
| Advertising style, to have icons for main types of advertising devices | Barnes38 | Icons for advertising=billboard, advertising=column, advertising=poster_box, advertising=totem, advertising=board More details | draft.52_2018-07-25 | |
 | BAR Damage Assessment | jgc | Displays colored and shaped icons, to show tagging of visible structural strength and damage scale of buildings, according to HHI BAR damage assessment methodology, adapted for OSM More details | 0.6_2018-03-24 |
 | Bench | Klumbumbus | Displays details of bench tags. More details | 1.1.6_2018-03-24 |
| BesideTheRoad_Speed | kudrdima | Visualization of traffic signs, road characteristics, some of the road infrastructure, traffic restrictions and prohibitions More details | 0.9_2021-09-26 | |
 | BNIWR Rendering (standarized symbols) | Aun (Skippern) Johnsen | JOSM rendering of nautical symbols according to BNIWR standard | 0.1 |
| Boundary_Stone | ajoessen,lutz | Visualization of some historic=* tags | 0.7_2020-10-05 | |
 | Building Colors | whatismoss | Colors buildings depending on their building=* tag. More details | 3_2024-03-13 |
| Building Levels Labels | Sowa1980, Alexander-II | Explicitly shows such tags as roof:levels, building:levels, building:levels:underground, building:min_level in the center of building/building part. | 1.8_2019-05-30 | |
| CEVNI Rendering (standarized symbols) | https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Kannix | JOSM rendering of nautical symbols according to CEVNI standard More details | 2019-03-10 | |
| Collapsed/damaged buildings | Hjart | Style to classify buildings More details | 0.6_2020-10-05 | |
| Color Ways | Martien, osm username martien-176 (formerly martien-vdg) | Choose your preferred color and line width of building outlines for better visibility on different backgrounds. Also highways and waterways have clearer colors More details | 0.2.35_2024-04-20 | |
| Colorize bicycle routes | Martin Ždila <martin.zdila@…> | Colorize bicycle routes tagged with tag colour. | 0.2.4_2013-11-03 | |
| Colour GPS data | Dirk Stöcker, René Lange | Display points according to GPS status (needs conversion of GPX layer to OSM). | 1.3_2019-11-20 | |
| colour tag | Klumbumbus | Displays ways in the colour of their colour tag. Supported formats are 6 digit RGB hexadecimal (#112233), 3 digit RGB hexadecimal (#123) and CSS color names (green). More details | 4_2022-08-05 | |
| Coloured Buildings.de | geozeisig | Style to classify buildings (german) More details | 1.015_2020-10-05 | |
| Coloured Buildings.en | riiga | Style to classify buildings (English) More details | 1.02_2021-09-18 | |
| Coloured Buildings.sv | riiga | Style to classify buildings (Swedish) More details | 1.01_2021-09-18 | |
| Coloured Buildings.uk | darkonus | Style to classify buildings. Translation of the geozeisig style More details | 0.1_7_2022-05-08 | |
| Coloured Kerbs | te | Draws the pattern for barrier=kerb in different colours based on kerb=* tag. More details | 4_2018-05-19 | |
| Coloured Postcode | geozeisig | Style to ease mapping of Postcode by colouring streets and houses and nodes More details | 2.19_2024-11-27 | |
 | Coloured Streets | geozeisig, Klumbumbus | Colouring of buildings, address nodes and streets with the same street name in the same colour. Makes working with addresses a lot easier. Check out the linked page to read how to change some settings of this mappaint style. More details | 3.53.127_2021-04-10 |
| Coloured Suburb | geozeisig | Coloring of buildings with addr:suburb depending on a CRC algorithm More details | 2.18_2024-11-27 | |
| Colouring helping editing names and refs on streets in Serbia | Pedja | This MapCSS style colors ways according to tags name and ref:RS:street, Style is supposed to be used combined with other styles (Tested in JOSM) More details | 0.11_2021-08-06 | |
| Conscriptionnumbers/streetnumbers | jose1711 | Displays addresses using Czech/Slovak address system More details | 0.2.3_2018-03-24 | |
| Cycleway Styling (BNA) | pkoby | This style was developed to aid in editing for the PeopleforBikes Bicycle Network Analysis (BNA). It adds line decorations to visualize on and off-road cycle tags, as well as relevant on-street parking. Notably, it displays individual sides of the road, and includes cycleway buffers. Deprecated tags are shown in different colors to suggest edits. More details | 0.7_2023-03-14 | |
| Cycleways | cmuelle8 | Standalone style to visualize cycleway=* and bicycle=* of objects, fade everything else. Please turn off JOSM internal style to use it. More details | 1.7_2018-03-24 | |
| destination_sign Relation | mdv | Highlight relation roles from, sign and to | 1.8_2020-10-05 | |
| DigiRoad bus stops | Polyglot | Highlight DigiRoad bus stops with directional arrows More details | 1.6_2018-11-02 | |
 | Direction | Hanikatu | Shows the direction of object or light. More details | 1.1.6_2021-06-06 |
 | Direction for traffic signs | Michael Maier (species@osm) | very simple preset to show the “direction” tag of a highway=stop,give_way,traffic_signals More details | 0.1.7 |
 | Disc Golf Course Testing | Negreheb | Colouring and icons for a Disc Golf Course to make mapping it easier. More details | 0.8_2024-03-21 |
 | Enhanced Lane and road attributes | Martin Vonwald,Florin Badita | Visualization of lanes, width, turn lanes, changing the lane, destination, lighting and street lamps, sidewalk, cycletracks, bicycle lanes, bus lanes, psv lanes. Added modification by Florin Badita : - You can see the end of each road segment as a square. - If you modify the lines from ~70 until ~80 and you add your own name, you will be able to see with green your modifications, so that you can inspect the other ways that already have lanes attributes, but were not made by you. - We only show lanes to road categoryes highwer then unclassified, residential. More details | 2.9_2020-04-27 |
| EPCI (France) | Don-vip | Display French local authorities (known as EPCI) More details | 2.0.5_2016-01-03 | |
| european-waterways-classification-style | kannix | visualisation of navigable waterways in Europe for recreational boating More details | 2021-12-23 | |
 | fixme and note | Klumbumbus | Displays fixme=* and note=* coloured. More details | 1.0.2_2020-08-17 |
 | Fixme and notes markers | LLlypuk82, Antisida | This MapCSS style highlights nodes/ways/polygons/multipolygons that contain FIXME/fixme/note and combinations of this tags. This style may be used alone or combined with other styles(Tested in JOSM only). | 0.2_2015-12-15 |
| FIXME Highlight Warnings | pierzen | This MapCSS style highlights ways/Polygons that contain Fixme attribute and unnamed highways. This style may be used alone or combined with other styles such as Potlatch2 and Mapnik (Tested in JOSM only). | 0.20_2017-10-30 |
 | Forest | igitov | Display detailed description of forest stands & related objects | 0.0.53 |
| FreieTonne | FreieTonne | Style for FreieTonne-Seamarks More details | 20220108225247 | |
 | Greenery details | Jeroen Hoek | Highlight various cultivated greenery features, like shrubbery. | 1.3_2021-08-30 |
 | hazmat | Klumbumbus | Displays hazmat=* and hazmat:water=* coloured. More details | 1.06_2020-10-05 |
| Health Boundaries | pierzen | Colors Health Boundary Polygons and nodes. It Helps monitor and edit Boundaries. Parameter options let select Health levels to show. More details | 1.10_2021-05-28 |
 | HiDPI Support | Klumbumbus | Allows to scale the nodes size and the font size of the default JOSM mappaint style. More details | 1.11_2021-01-03 |
 | Highway areas | Alex Seidel (Supaplex030) | Visual support for mapping highway areas (area:highway). More details | 1.4_2023-07-26 |
| Highway Nodes | naoliv | Highlights untagged and unconnected nodes in a way More details | 1.5_2020-10-05 | |
| HU-HighlightHikingTrailSigns | efemm | Highlight hiking trails icons, optimized for Hungarian marking. More details | 1.12_2022-04-25 | |
 | Icon tester | Klumbumbus | Helps to test new JOSM icons. More details | 1.1.11_2021-05-15 |
 | iD | Leif Rasmussen | Renders roads, waterways, landuse, and other features like iD. More details | 0.91_2024-12-10 |
 | Incline | Klumbumbus | Display of up/down arrows at the first and last node of ways with incline=*. More details | 2.1.10_2020-09-04 |
| Incomplete Object Warnings | Timonade | Checks for incomplete data | 2_2022-09-26 | |
 | Indoor | Ubica2 Project Team | This JOSM style displays useful information to help indoor map edition. It highlights rooms, corridors, stairs and elevators. In addition, some kind of nodes which are important inside a building will be represented also More details | 0.5 |
 | Inline_Validation | Validate map data as you edit. | 0.2 | |
| INT 1 Rendering (IHO standarized symbols) PD | Aun (Skippern) Johnsen | JOSM rendering of nautical symbols according to IHO standard INT-1 | 0.2.1 |
| Japan Impassable Ways | cmuelle8 | Dash out ways tagged with barriers, visualize practicability=* More details | 1.7_2020-10-05 | |
 | Japan Tsunami POIS | PierZen | POIS related to Tsunami plus Surface / Roads with damages, obstacles More details | 1.24_2020-10-31 |
 | JOSM default (XML; old version, outdated) | Old version of JOSM default style | XML: 1.10_2020-03-07 | |
| Kapor2 parcels | jose1711 | Color coding of parcels obtained via Kapor2 plugin (export function) | 0.2_2019-08-15 | |
| Landcover tags | Martin Vonwald | Show landcover and some additional landuse tags | 0.4.14_2020-10-05 | |
| Lane and road attributes | Martin Vonwald | Visualization of lanes, width, turn lanes, changing the lane, destination, lighting and street lamps, sidewalk, cycletracks, bicycle lanes, bus lanes, psv lanes. More details | 2.10-68_2023-10-30 |
| Lane details, right-hand traffic, arrow version | Wolfgang Hinsch | Shown tags:: lanes, turn lanes, bus lanes, changing the lane, cycleways, sidepaths and lightning | 0.11_2014-06-29 | |
| Lane details, right-hand traffic, color version | Wolfgang Hinsch | Shown tags:: lanes, turn lanes, bus lanes, changing the lane, cycleways, sidepaths and lightning | 0.5_2014-07-02 | |
 | Layer checker | Klumbumbus | Display of layer values by different colors. More details | 1.3.20_2024-10-12 |
| Less obtrusive nodes | xeen | Make nodes smaller when zoomed out. This makes navigating easier when viewing a large area. Also hides icons and text accordingly. More details | 1.9_2018-03-24 | |
| LexxPluss Style | Yasuyuki Miura & Masaya Aso | LexxPluss style to be unicorn More details | 0.2.12_2022-11-03 | |
| light_source | Manuel Hohmann | Icons for light_source=*. | 0.2_2019-08-15 | |
| Lit | cmuelle8 | Show lit=yes/no settings in JOSM map display More details | 2.0.5_2016-01-03 | |
 | Lit Objects | achadwick | Supplementary stylesheet which highlights lit and unlit objects by surrounding them with large glows. Works well with the Potlatch 2 base style. | 0.3_2015-06-02 |
 | Mapillary Object Detections | Taylor Smock | Paint style for Mapillary point objects | 1.6_2022-08-24 |
| Mapnik (true) | MapCSS variant of the OSM Mapnik style (as close as possible to the original). It is not very suitable for real mapping in an editor because nodes and lines without a style are hidden and opaque areas may cover each other. This file is optimized for JOSM and may need some minor changes to work properly with other MapCSS implementations. | 0.1 | ||
 | Mapping Accessibility | LorenzoStucchi | Mappatura dell'accessibilità More details | 2.4_2020-11-22 |
 | MapWithAI | Taylor Smock | Visualization of MapWithAI data | 1.19_2021-03-23 |
 | Maxspeed | Rubke, Dirk Stöcker, Vclaw, Klumbumbus | Display maxspeed values of ways in the map view. More details | 2.9.47_2024-05-20 |
| Missing Maps / Youth Mappers Validators Checks | George Washington University | Some easy settings to find problems that are common in HOT, Missing Maps and Youth Mappers tasks -- namely roads that have a name, which might suspect, and buildings that aren't tagged as building=yes | 1.7 | |
| Modified highways | martien-176 | Highlight modified highways More details | 0.1.2_2024-05-08 | |
 | Modified objects | Sebastian Klein | Highlight modified objects More details | 0.1.14_2021-03-23 |
| Mountains | lzhl | Indication mountain terrain tags | 0.6_2020-10-05 | |
| MTB | Heiko Woehrle | visualize mtb:scale of objects More details | Styles/MTB | |
 | MTB Trailmap (MTB Difficulty, uphill difficulty, path width, visibility and surface) | Tommi Contursi | Easily visualize MTB trail difficulty, uphill difficulty, trail width, visibility, and surface type with color-coded indicators and text labels. Inspired by Trailmap.fi, this style ensures your edits are accurately reflected, providing clear and detailed trail information for mountain biking. Includes toggle options allow you to choose which trail attributes are displayed on the map layer. Designed to work seamlessly with JOSM's default styles, such as JOSM Standard and Potlatch 2. More details | 1.1.1_2024-08-01 |
| New basic style | Mokrynskyi Pavlo | Style is made in the likeness of the id editor from the web version of openstreetmap.org. Use together with the standard one.Comments and suggestions write to https://github.com/pasharm/New_basic_style_for_JOSM/issues More details | 15_2018-08-04 | |
 | New highway colors | Evgeny Katyshev | Make highways color like at standart OSM render More details | 1.0.3_2020-10-05 |
| new parking features | Mario Schütze | Display the new parking features from "Proposed_features/parking" (see link). More details | 1.4_2018-03-24 | |
| new-modified-buildings | martien-176 | Flags new and modified buildings. This mapstyle is partly inspired by another mapstyle named Modified Objects More details | 1.11_2024-05-08 | |
| NoFeature | Pierre Béland (PierZen) | No Feature Validation focused style. This style hides the visible and make visible objects hidden in the database with no valid Main tag to facilitate identification of these Features (ie, highway, building, landuse, natural, amenity, shop,etc). This first version is a proof of concept. Comments welcomed. | 0.12_2019-08-15 | |
| Numbered Cycle Node Networks | Polyglot | Highlight Numbered nodes and the routes in between them More details | 1.15_2020-05-14 | |
| Numbered Walking Node Networks | Escada | Highlight numbered nodes and the routes in between them More details | 1.5_2020-05-14 | |
 | Open Nederlands Wegenbestand (OpenNWB) | dr.ir. Jeroen van der Gun (Fileradar) | Interactieve kaartstijl met wegkenmerken voor de Lage Landen More details | |
| OpenRailwayMap additional icons and symbols for editing | Nakaner | Style for a assisting mapping of railway information in JOSM. Not suitable for map rendering. More details | 0 | |
| OpenRailwayMap Electrification layer | Dakon | Style for a electrification layer railroad network map. More details | 0 | |
| OpenRailwayMap infrastructure standard layer | rurseekatze | Style for a infrastructure standard layer railroad network map. More details | 0 | |
| OpenRailwayMap maxspeed layer | rurseekatze | Style for a maxspeed layer of the railroad network. More details | 0 | |
| OpenRailwayMap signalling layer | rurseekatze | Style for a signalling layer railroad network map. More details | 0 | |
| operator and ref | "Sowa1980, Панкратов Александр Владимирович | Explicitly shows tags like operator, ref in center of area, node | 1.00_2021-12-08 | |
 | orientation for traffic signs | Stéphane Péneau (Carto'Cité) | simple preset to show the “direction” tag of a highway=stop,give_way,traffic_signals More details | 0.3.1 |
| OSMC Hiking | Martin Ždila <martin.zdila@…> | Colorize marked hiking trails using OSMC tagging schema. | 0.2.3_2013-11-03 | |
| OSMC Hiking (optimized for SK/CZ/PL) | Martin Ždila <martin.zdila@…> | Colorize marked hiking trails using OSMC tagging schema. Optimized for SK/CZ/PL marking. | 0.2.2_2013-11-03 | |
| Osmic | nebulon42 | Osmic icons for JOSM More details | 0.1 | |
| Paddenstoel guidepost | vsandre | Show a special icon for a paddenstoel guidepost. More details | 1.8_2020-10-05 | |
 | Parking lanes | Sebastian Klemm, Kay Drangmeister, Jeroen Hoek, riiga, Supaplex030 | Parking lanes along roads and parking/stopping restrictions. More details | 1.26_2024-10-14 |
 | Places_ES_styles | Iago Casabiell González | Displays nodes with [place=*] for Spain. | 1.0.4_2020-01-15 |
| plan.at ToDos | simon04 | Highlight problematic objects from plan.at import More details | 1.6_2020-10-05 | |
| potlach2 access | iav | Visualizes access tag on highways. Made only for Potlach2 JOSM style | 0.2_2012-11-30 | |
 | Potlatch 2 | Richard Fairhurst, conversion by Guillaume Rischard | Potlatch 2 core stylesheet, forked, patched, converted and vectorised. More details | 1.13_2024-09-01 |
| Power | FLacombe | A more detailed style for various power facilities and features | 0.4.5_2020-04-17 | |
| Power Mapping Additions | SSherpa+prabhasp | Special icons for facilitating mapping of power lines; in development. More details | 0.35_2020-10-31 | |
| PPWBC Rendering (standarized symbols) | Aun (Skippern) Johnsen | JOSM rendering of nautical symbols according to PPWBC standard | 0.1 |
 | Priority Road | Klumbumbus | Displays priority_road=* coloured. More details | 1.1.9_2020-10-05 |
| PTStops | FiliusMartii | Highlight important information regarding Public Transportation according to public transport version 2 More details | 1.0.4_2016-01-19 | |
| Public Transport | Polyglot | Highlight important information regarding Public Transport More details | 2.10_2018-03-24 | |
| Public Transport v2 | Ialokim | Highlight important information regarding public transport according to public transport version 2. More details | 1.5.9_2023-12-28 | |
 | Recycling Materials | Klumbumbus | Displays recycling material on recycling nodes. More details | 1.0.6_2020-10-05 |