Copy and paste offset

General talk
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New user’s question.

Using JOSM, when I copy a polygon from one layer and paste it to another one, the result is offset by several metres; why is this and what can I do about it?

Thanks in anticipation

Bonoky

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Hi, I’ve just tried that, strange behavior and I don’t know why. I usually use Ctrl+c to copy and Ctrl+v to paste if you can place your cursor exactly it works OK to fairly precisely position the copy.

A little trial and it seems that copy, then paste at source position from the edit menu will correctly place the copied objects.

3

Josm has a command to paste at the original position, where it has been copied from. The shortcut is Ctrl-Alt-V and it can be found in the middle of the Edit menue.

4

Yes, and the default is to paste at the cursor position, which is useful in most situations.

5

Thanks everyone, just the information I needed.