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Editing & Saving
This editor is designed to work primarily online, and you're accessing it through a website right now.
Selecting Features
To select a map feature, like a road or point of interest, click on it on the map. This will highlight the selected feature, open a panel with details about it, and show a menu of things you can do with the feature.
Multiple features can be selected by holding the 'Shift' key, clicking, and dragging on the map. This will select all features within the box that's drawn, allowing you to do things with several features at once.
Saving Edits
When you make changes like editing roads, buildings, and places, these are stored locally until you save them to the server. Don't worry if you make a mistake - you can undo changes by clicking the undo button, and redo changes by clicking the redo button.
Click 'Save' to finish a group of edits - for instance, if you've completed an area of town and would like to start on a new area. You'll have a chance to review what you've done, and the editor supplies helpful suggestions and warnings if something doesn't seem right about the changes.
If everything looks good, you can enter a short comment explaining the change you made, and click 'Save' again to post the changes to OpenStreetMap.org, where they are visible to all other users and available for others to build and improve upon.
If you can't finish your edits in one sitting, you can leave the editor window and come back (on the same browser and computer), and the editor application will offer to restore your work.