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= Mode Menu = 
''Keyboard shortcut:'' **`Alt+M`**

The Mode menu lists all Working modes available to JOSM and shows the current one.

The Mode menu can help users to quickly enter another Working mode.

== Working mode ==#Workingmode
The effect of a mouse click in the [wikitr:/Help/MapView Mapview] is determined by the Working mode.
Therefore JOSM has a current Working mode at **all times**.

Usually another Working mode is entered with a keystroke.
Additionally the buttons visible in the upper half of the [wikitr:/Help/EditToolbar#Workingmodes Edit toolbar] allow entering a Working mode.

Most Working modes have individual icons for the mouse pointer. 
Further information about the next mouse click is also shown at the right hand side of the [wikitr:/Help/StatusBar Status bar].

||=  **Icon**  =||= **Name** =||= **Shortcut** =||= **Description** =||
||  [[JOSMImage(mapmode/move/move)]] \\ \\ [[JOSMImage(mapmode/rope)]]  || [wikitr:/Help/Action/Select Select mode] (rect.) \\ \\ [wikitr:/Help/Action/LassoMode Lasso mode (freely)]  ||  `S` \\ \\ `S` `S`  || Select [wikitr:/Help/Concepts/Object objects] to move, rotate and scale them. \\ Press `S` again to switch between a rectangular or a freely dragged catch area. || 
||  [[JOSMImage(mapmode/node/autonode)]]  || [wikitr:/Help/Action/Draw Draw mode] ||  `A`  || Draw nodes and ways. Press `A` again for [wikitr:/Help/Action/Draw/AngleSnap Angle snapping] ||
||  [[JOSMImage(mapmode/zoom)]]  || [wikitr:/Help/Action/Zoom Zoom mode] ||  || Zoom with a rectangle ||
||  [[JOSMImage(mapmode/delete)]]  || [wikitr:/Help/Action/Delete Delete mode] ||  `Ctrl+Delete`  || Delete objects or way segments  ||
||  [[JOSMImage(mapmode/parallel)]]  || [wikitr:/Help/Action/Parallel Parallel mode] ||  `Shift+P`  || Creates parallel copy of ways  ||
||  [[JOSMImage(mapmode/extrude/extrude)]]  || [wikitr:/Help/Action/Extrude Extrude mode] ||  `X`  || Create and edit way segments by extrusion  ||
||  [[JOSMImage(mapmode/improvewayaccuracy)]]  || [wikitr:/Help/Action/ImproveWayAccuracy Improve Way Accuracy mode] ||  `W`  || Improve geometry of ways ||
||  [[JOSMImage(mapmode/splitway)]]  || [wikitr:/Help/Action/Split Split mode] ||  `Ctrl+Alt+F2`  || Split ways (since r18772) ||

Additional Working modes can be added by [wikitr:/Plugins plugins] installed. \\
For example:
||=  **Icon** =||= **Name** =||= **Shortcut** =||= **Description** =||
||  [[Image(/pluginicon/alignways.jar/images/alignways.png,link=,middle)]]  || [osmwiki:JOSM/Plugins/AlignWayS Align Ways mode] ||  `Shift+N`  || Make ways parallel ||
||  [[Image(source:osm/applications/editors/josm/plugins/measurement/images/mapmode/measurement.png,link=,middle)]]  || [wikitr:/Help/Action/MeasurementMode measurement] || || Measure distances ||
||  [[Image(/pluginicon/editgpx.jar/images/mapmode/editgpx_mode.png,link=,middle)]]  || [osmwiki:JOSM/Plugins/EditGpx Edit Gpx tracks] || || Delete trackpoints of gpx tracks ||
||  [[Image(/pluginicon/contourmerge.jar/images/mapmode/contourmerge.png,link=,middle)]]  || [osmwiki:JOSM/Plugins/ContourMerge Contour Merge] ||  || Merge and align the contours of areas. More infos at [wikitr:/Help/Plugin/ContourMerge Contour Merge]. ||
||  [[Image(/pluginicon/photoadjust.jar/images/photoadjust.png,link=,middle)]]  || [osmwiki:JOSM/Plugins/PhotoAdjust Adjust photos] || || Move photos to adjust their geolocation ||
||  [[Image(/pluginicon/FastDraw.jar/images/favicon.png,link=,middle)]]  || [osmwiki:JOSM/Plugins/FastDraw FastDrawing] ||  `Shift+F`  || Tracing forests, rivers, lakes, twisted roads etc. Without clicking `A` button or left mouse click too much. More infos at [wikitr:/Help/Action/FastDrawingMode Fast drawing]. ||
||  [[Image(/pluginicon/buildings_tools.jar/images/mapmode/building.png,link=,middle)]]  || [osmwiki:JOSM/Plugins/BuildingsTools Draw Building] ||  `B`  || Rectangular objects and/or basic shape of most man made objects. More infos at [wikitr:/Help/Action/DrawBuilding Draw building]. ||

=== See also ===
* [wikitr:/Help/Preferences/Shortcuts Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts]
* The Mode menu was introduced in [/ticket/12662 October 2019]. 
  Its shortcut key was formerly assigned to the More Tools menu.

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