Compdude - I'm fairly sure these issues are being worked on. Perhaps view the video of the State of the Map 2010 presentation here osm.wiki/SotM_2010_session:_What_I’d_like_to_do_with_Mapnik for more information about the complexities involved.

If the ways have the role "outer" then shouldn't the tag go on the relation rather than the way? And as bleakgadfly suggests, if you do use anything than building=yes (such as building=house, building=garage, building=shop or whatever) then I guess you tag these as you go along and only tag the remaining buildings with the search described above?

As well as screenshots you can use the export tab to get some more customisable options.

Try the export tab, choose the embeddable html option and convert your coordinates to decimal degrees.

Yes, I only had Yahoo at z13 which was too blurred to make out field boundaries. I did use OS StreetView a bit but their building outlines are only approximations (but were better than me just sticking the number on an approximate node location, as I could use buildings to distinguish between say detached houses, semi-detached houses and terraces).

The photos must be different dates. If Google are altering images they also replaced the English flag with the British flag on the flagpole, and I think the end (2?) properties to the left have also been repainted.

I've been slowly trying to do Clacton, but rather than aerial imagery use the OS Opendata as a background so I can draw buildings rather than nodes. The background only gives building outlines though, so knowing which houses are detached, semi-detached or part of a terrace requires a survey. Especially as some roads have numbers missing, or houses knocked down and replaced by a/b/c variants on the original number, etc.

Examples:
Clacton:
osm.org/go/0EHmQvYIw-

Winnersh (where I go for training courses occasionally):
osm.org/go/eussEAc6g-

A mini-housing estate in a golf course (stay at hotel for conferences occasionally):
osm.org/go/euycQWY@Z-

I tend to do them on foot, with walking paper type printouts where I can write a number, or circle more than one number for semi-detached/terrace, to indicate each building, then match them up when I get home.

I started by using nodes and interpolation ways (before the OS opendata was released) and later switched to a node for each house number (though didn't clearly note which shared the same building - I need to resurvey
osm.org/go/0EHnEa0@s--
at some point, for example).

But yes, being able to search for an address and it pinpointing the exact property does give me a sense that the effort is worthwhile (if only so I know where to collect my step-daughters from their friends' houses, which is why the coverage of Clacton started rather patchy and I've tried to fill in the gaps between).

Or instead of building=yes, building=mathematics_faculty (or whatever).

If you are using the online editor on the Edit tab, click the + button on the right hand side and enter leisure in the first box and park in the one on the right. See osm.wiki/Potlatch/Primer#Editing_tags for more details.

Two possible solutions to your associatedStreet issue. Either create a separate associatedStreet relation for each street segment, which might lead to more accurate routing as house numbers would be associated with a smaller section of the street. Or just stick all the street segments in the one associatedStreet relation and give them all role street and don't worry too much about the wiki saying it can only have one item with role street - just one is fine when you are creating the relations initially, but if someone comes along and then splits the street for whatever reason you'll end up with multiple street items in existing relations anyway (if I understand how JOSM and Potlatch deal with splitting ways that are relation members correctly).

Do the statistics about the number of nodes/ways/etc here help? osm.org/stats/data_stats.html

But you can look at the map and think 'wow' afterwards.

I was going to try using OSM Atlas
osm.wiki/OSM-Atlas
but never got around to it. That links back to OSM on Paper
osm.wiki/OSM_on_Paper
which seems to list a number of different options to try (including the two suggested in the comment above).

Whichever you go with, you might find designation=public_footpath useful for public footpaths (and similar for bridleways). This means you can use whatever other tags seem most appropriate (for example I drove down a highway=track to a farm on Saturday which will also be tagged as a bridleway when I get around to it...)

The way is not closed. View osm.org/browse/way/24514639 and the first node id and the last should be the same. Somehow you've got the same node first and third in the list and the last is the same as the second, as if a bit of the way doubles back on itself.

Not sure of best cure, but it involves careful editing and some work with the northwestern most node.

Hi. While I also have a dislike for the word soccer, it isn't all down to the Americans in this case. There is a discussion here:

osm.wiki/Proposed_features/football

about the reasoning behind it, which makes sense (to me) after reading it.

I'll admit I have since mapped two benches and selected the back=no option... Having forgotten the other presets available I hadn't noted the colour or the material they were made from.

And as a comment, I need to work on the areas in Clacton. I wouldn't call this country park part of Bockings Elm, but Great Clacton. Not sure how the above diary entry decided a location, but until I know otherwise I'll blame Nominatim (and twain47 can blame my tagging of the places in return).

I gave up on CO12 73. I think it was probably removed from the layby opposite a house called Potlands, as I've been up and down the road there many many times trying to spot it, and there is only one road in the area it could be on, and still haven't found it. Oh, and CO15 157, and I'm now mapping individual house numbers in the area it ought to be and still can't find it. Again, I think removed.

And if I recall correctly, if you have a lot of pulsing circles on a single way, select the way and press J to join them all. It's been a while since I was deduplicating though.