City and postcode in the UK aren’t generally mapped as boundaries.

I believe county is no longer part of the Royal Mail’s official address, so I wouldn’t consider adding an addr:county tag (though removing them where you find them is only going to bloat the database history too)

I’m not sure how after reading wikipedia you decided 4 surface tags are sufficient when the article says the ITF classify into 9 types (with the 9th being “other”).

It wasn’t so much about noticing it elsewhere, but when I tried doing pins for this map I gave up trying to work out offsets and settled on filled circles instead.

I’ve not checked, but is the marker position issue that the marker image has a pointy bit at the bottom, but the co-ordinates are for the centre of the image, causing a slight offset?

Can’t work out how to edit my last comment, but I suspect it is the opendata plugin that adds shapefile support osm.wiki/JOSM/Plugins/OpenData

I don’t know whether I have a plugin installed or not, but JOSM seems to have an option to open .shp files. I don’t know how or whether it will cope with the Nottingham shapefiles using OSGB projection. When I last used shapefiles some years ago the instructions at osm.wiki/Using_OS_Shapefiles were helpful

I don’t usually map driveways, but I can see if you wanted pedestrian routing (perhaps for those with a visual impairment) to the front door of a property then you probably would want the drive mapped, and perhaps even a short footway from drive to door for connectivity.

I’m guessing there is a typo in “Dropping buildings up to z13 instead of z13” because otherwise I think even I could have written that patch ;)

I don’t seem to be able to edit comments - I wanted to add “or select fort in the Type section”.

The tag is described on the wiki here but if you are using the default editor of iD you will want to choose “Historic site” and then change “yes” to “fort” in the “All tags” section.

Does the fence at the back of the building really run diagonally to the corner of the building, rather than parallel to the footpath? It just looks strange, and I wondered if the building node just accidentally got added to the way.

You could think of it along the lines of “Where can I eat?” and if the cuisine tag is provided that is additional information (along with say phone number and delivery hours for some of the local takeaways).

I noticed concrete markers at the edge of our street at various points as I walked home from a cashpoint last night. They were all similar. One had SV on it, one (next to a fire hydrant) had WO and another had AV. A bit of Google searching (in particular a self lay pdf from Severn Trent) suggests they are to mark Sluice Valves, Wash Outs, and possibly Air Valves. These concrete ones have two numbers (like fire hydrants) marking diameter and distance. I’m guessing you’ve found an earlier version.

This isn’t new. crossing=zebra has been valid since the early days of OSM. Or has someone amended the wiki since then? Or have I misunderstood the issue?

mtc: More Tools, Copy Tags from Previous Selection

Adding house numbers in rural Tendring there are many places that only have house names (and one hamlet, Raven’s Green, doesn’t seem to have a road name). New houses added in ones or twos also then tend to gain names, but if a new housing development (with new road name) gets built, they then tend to get numbers.

I’ve been using the terracer tool with latest stable release today. What do I have to do to reproduce your error? I’m about to try looking at the keep outline way option, which I always have set not to do so.

See also Skeet shooting maybe?

Here? I’d guess shooting range based on this example from a Google image search

It is a dramatic drop in December, and there are so many lines I can’t be sure, but it looks like December is often lower than the month before, particularly 2012-12 if I’ve squinted at the graph correctly.