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JOSM Keyboard Shortcuts
The following shortcuts are the default setting. This list might be outdated. You can always look in the JOSM shortcut preferences to see all active shortcuts (except for the different mode modifiers).
modes
interface and appearance
other shortcuts
select mode
Click | Selects one object. Click in an empty area and drag selects more objects.
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Click | Clicking and dragging a red cross in the middle of a segment will insert a new node at the location of the cross.
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Click-MiddleMouse | Cycle through the different objects under the mouse cursor (for duplicated nodes or ways sharing the same nodes). Holding "Ctrl" afterwards to directly select an object.
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Shift-Click | Holding the "Shift" key when in select mode adds new element to existing selection.
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Ctrl-Click | Holding the "Ctrl" key toggles element selection.
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Ctrl-Area | Using area selection with "Ctrl" removes elements in area from selection.
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Ctrl-Move | Selecting "Ctrl" when moving nodes joins these nodes with the traget node the are dropped on.
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Ctrl-Shift-LeftMouse | Holding the "Shift" and "Ctrl" key allows rotating selected objects.
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Ctrl-Alt-LeftMouse | Holding the "Ctrl" and "Alt" key allows scaling selected objects.
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Alt-Click | Cycle through the different objects under the mouse cursor (without popup).
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add mode
Double Click | Ends the current way.
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Shift-Click | Holding the "Shift" key turns off extending the selected way
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Ctrl-Click | Holding the "Ctrl" key prevents snapping on existing ways and nodes.
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Alt-Click | Holding the "Alt" key creates a separated though connected way (same you could do afterwards by selecting a node and press P). This mode is marked by a small bar at the previous node.
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delete mode
Shift-Click | Holding the "Shift" key and clicking on a way segment only deletes this way segment and not the whole way.
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Ctrl-Click | Holding the "Ctrl" key deletes object and references (i.e. ways using this node).
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Alt-Click | Holding the "Alt" key and clicking on a way only deletes the way without its nodes.
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extrude mode (X)
Ctrl-Click | Holding the "Ctrl" moves way segments along their perpendicular (orthogonal to the arrow direction of the way segement).
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all modes
Click-RightMouse | Click and drag to move the map.
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Scroll-Wheel | Zoom in and out.
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Note: In gnome desktop environment "Alt"-Click is used for moving the window. The "AltGr" key can be used instead; note that on some keyboards the "AltGr" key is simply the right-hand "Alt" key.
See also
- Auto generated list of shortcuts
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