Ah, for some reason I couldn't see your full text initially. So I'll add to my comment. I haven't used tidal=yes as I have assumed that tidalflat sort of implies it. You also mention the bug I've also commented on, as I don't like the marsh rendering either. Sandy areas I've tagged as beach (tidal=yes) which does render as sand, and rather than use natural=mud I'd suggest your tagging scheme with maybe surface=mud (though it makes no difference to the rendering).

Ed

If you mean the area between high and low tides, after much wiki searching and seeing what had been done further along the coastline, I've been using multipolygons such as osm.org/browse/relation/1020000 or with islands osm.org/browse/relation/1019753

Ed

I collected house numbers on a street the other day and on one side they went 5, 3, 1 then a house without a number named "Minus One".

And you can probably ignore no-exit signs in new estates. I mapped a road recently of new build houses which had a no through road sign at the end built first, but not at the other end (which is where I actually entered). no-exit/no-through roads should usually be obvious from topology anyway, and I've only used them as hints where one (no through road) way ends near another way to shut up some of the validation tools...

I've added a space to the page name and linked to it from the Warwickshire page.

Is ve3ixi an amateur radio callsign? Ed (G4ZXS)

5 new nodes to fix this time. Matt had already fixed 2 (which were caused by Potlatch being used to revert corruption of a way, so may have been duplicated before the corruption), and the other three were down to JOSM tested, by experienced mappers. I am beginning to wonder if JOSM tested has a bug or not.

I meant to add, yesterday's new duplicate node was down to a Merkaartor user.

Hi stevage, I can see how that would create near duplicates, but these are indeed exact duplicates on top of each other, usually with duplicated nodes on top of each other, but sometimes sharing the same nodes. I guess the difference there is whether the problem was when the way was being created or amended. If it helps, you could perhaps try having the Mapnik background visible in Potlatch which might give an indication as to whether data has downloaded OK or not.

In JOSM you could perhaps try (after selection), Edit, Copy, File, New, Edit, Paste, File, Save As and you should just then be saving the new layer which only contains the copy of the selected objects. I'd then suggest quitting JOSM to avoid the risk of uploading any duplicates (I'm not sure how easy it is to do this by mistake after doing the above). The .osm file is a .xml file, but would only contain the items you want, so may even by person readable if you printed it?

I tend to zoom out using the mouse wheel, then back in where I want to look closer. A bit awkward when I first used JOSM but now I do it without thinking.

I suspect if paths were tagged as wheelchair accessible (and I think I've seen a proposed tag for this somewhere in the wiki) that a pushchair would be no problem. However, the pushchair I was using at the weekend was one of the narrower collapsable sort, and there was a path at Frinton which was just wide enough for that pushchair but I wouldn't have said was wide enough for a wheelchair (although with the wheels either side ploughing down nettles it may have been possible to force a wheelchair through).

I asked the same question about "unsuitable for motor vehicles" on one of the email lists some time ago I think, and never got an answer. Your question made me reconsider now I've a bit more mapping experience, and I've decided to tag the way in question motor_vehicle=unsuitable (though unsuitable as a value is not in the wiki), as it is sort of an access restriction, but more of a guide than a rule.
osm.wiki/Key:access
The way I wanted to tag is actually used by lots of motor vehicles, and some have the clearance not to catch the bottom of their vehicle on the hump where the road changes angle suddenly as it crosses the railway line.
osm.org/browse/way/26551700

Ed

If the stream that you refer to is the Cam Brook to the north/west of the village where you made your trace, I switched to edit mode to use Potlatch and the NPE map background, and it looks like someone has already added it, but as yet the rendering hasn't been done to put it on the default Mapnik layer, though it does show on the Osmarender one.