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JOSM filter ‘untagged’. Is there a way to get it to filter out ‘meta’ tags?

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By default JOSM's filter 'untagged' option ignores meta tags such as note, source & created_by etc.

This is useful & annoying in equal measure. Is there a way to turn this behavior off? (toggle?)

Is there a list of all these meta tags?

asked 09 Jan '19, 22:49

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The tags to ignore when looking for untagged nodes seem to be defined in UntaggedNode.java function visitKeyValue(). Currently they are:

  • tag fixme=*
  • tags starting with
    • note, comment or description
    • created_by or converted_by
    • watch
    • source

I'm not sure if you can disable this behavior. However you can explicitly add tags you are searching for, for example by using "untagged or fixme or note".

answered 10 Jan '19, 07:39

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edited 10 Jan '19, 08:06

Source code available on GitHub .