Edit > Paste

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+V

Paste the contents of the clipboard,
at the mouse pointer position into the active data layer:

• all nodes and parent objects will be preserved as they were selected (relative position is kept)
• links in the data (node-way, way-relation and node-relation) will be respected only if they were selected; cloned objects will have (new) links similar to copied objects

Pasting object URLs

When you have an open osm data layer and you paste an object URL from osm.org e.g. ​https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/20830918 the object will be downloaded. This works for all object types.

Small note: with multiple data layers, object will be placed in the latest layer (with biggest id)

See also

• Paste at source position - if you want to paste an object at its source position (e.g. from another layer or another JOSM instance)
• Copy - used to copy objects
• Paste Tags - will paste only tags
• Duplicate

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