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Selection Panel

keyboard shortcut: Shift+Alt+T — one of the JOSM panels

This panel shows the currently selected objects (nodes, ways, closed ways and relations).

Selection

• Selection is independent per each layer
  • Selection in other layers will be preserved after an unsuccessful search - it is safe to change (or even erase) selection in one layer and expect to selection in other layer to kept
  • Selection in the active layer will be empty after unsuccessful search
• There are at least 2 tools to recover history of last selected objects:
  • Small triangle in "Select" button from this page
  • Special syntax in the search action - selection based on list of objects save in the file
• Selection is ordered (internally, but you cannot control order except by re-selecting objects); practical use of it can be seen in MergeNodes
• This panel has not 3, but 5 control elements in total. Triangles are often overlooked at first, but provide a very powerful tools
• List of currently selected object(s) can be erased:
  • after Left mouse click on empty space in viewport (main editing window)
  • after using one of many Deselection tools
  • after running search query (explained above)
  • after Escape tool
• Items in Selection panel can be subselected

Subselection

Items in selection can be "selected" again (subselected)

• Mouse click to subselect single object
• Hold Ctrl
  • to subselect more than object
  • to remove subselection from objects

Single node Spielemax subselected in screen below

Context menu

Icon	Name	Description and notes
	Zoom to selection	Zoom the Map view so that only data which is currently selected is in view.
	Zoom to selected elements	Zoom the Map view so that only data which is currently chosen in the panel is in view. Zoom to subselection

Items below apply only to relations:

Icon	Name	Description and notes
	Edit	Opens relation in a relation editor.
	Delete	Deletes the relation.
	Select in relation list	Selects the relation in the relation panel
	Select relation	Selects the relation in the main map selection.
	Select relation (add)	Adds the relation to the main map selection.
	Select members	Selects all members of the relation in main map selection.
	Select members (add)	Adds all members of the relation to the main map selection.
	Download members	Downloads all members of the selected relation, except for new relations.
	Download incomplete members	Downloads all incomplete members of the relation.
	Open/View "link" Search on ... (Tag2Link)	Optional items to open websites corresponding to the tags of selected objects in the panel, like website, url or wikidata, in the external web browser

Naming

• Nodes are shown with their names (likewise their OSM-ID) and their position in brackets.
• Ways and closed ways are shown with their names and if no name-tags exist with their main tag (e.g. highway, landuse, railway ...). If JOSM is not able to interpreted any tag the OSM-IDs are shown. The numbers of nodes the ways consist of are always shown in brackets.
• Relations are shown with their type and in brackets the name and the number of members.

Panel buttons

Select

Select selects the objects currently selected in the selection panel.

Small triangle in Select button

With the small triangle button within the Select button you can restore previous selections from a drop down list:

Objects that were filtered out (by filters) will be displayed as "Unselectable now".

Search

Search feature: it allows a very sophisticated search.

Small triangle in Search button

Like Select the small triangle button within the Search button also offers a drop down search list of previous search.

History

History - opens the History Browser. For each selected object a separate window will open.

Preferences

There are some (advanced) settings, available, to influence the displayed object`s information in the list. While the first three can be found under Display the fourth will only show up there in Expert mode and the last never. All can be changed in the advanced preference:

• osm-primitives.showid: set to true/false to display/hide the OSM id of the object in the list
• osm-primitives.showcoor: set to true/false to display/hide the coordinates of the object in the list
• osm-primitives.showversion: set to true/false to display/hide the version number of the object in the list
• osm-primitives.localize-name: set to true to display the localized name of the object, if corresponding tag is present (expert mode only).

• osm-primitives.showid.new-primitives: set to true to display the internal negative OSM id of new objects in the list, instead of zero (0) for all (expert mode only).

Option to not sort the objects by object type and id

• selection.no_sort: set to true to show the real order of selection.

See also

• Search

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