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.

I use them with the slippymap plugin; I think I had them working as a WMS layer, but the alignment seemed to change slightly every time I started JOSM. Seems consistent with the slippymap plugin.

I'm fairly sure I followed the instructions here:
osm.wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata#OS_StreetView

Ed

Which bridge do you have problems with? I've looked at your most recent changesets and can't find a layer tag in any of them. But lyx has given a pretty good explanation - for the bridge add layer= (1 more than whatever it is crossing, which is 0 if that has no tag).

Also, I've never got the Presets, Relations, Multipolygon menu option to do anything useful in JOSM and do the following instead:
* select all the items I want in the edit pane (shift-click on each)
* in the relations pane (may need opening first using button on left hand bar), click the button to create a new relation (use tooltip to check, think it is the left one under the list of relations)
* click the arrow button to add all of the selected elements (right pane) to the relation members list (left pane)
* in the top pane add the tags:
type=multipolygon
(and whatever the outer way(s) represent so perhaps waterway=riverbank)
* in the relation members list ensure the role for each element is set to inner or outer as appropriate (where outer represents the riverbank in your case and inner a "hole" or island).

Sorry if any of the above is too geeky.

But as lyx says - if you don't have any islands you might not need a relation, although you might if your riverbank section is made up of more than one way (then they'd all be "outer" ways).

Not a private one by any chance? I've found a few with no collection plate which people use for receiving mail. The boss where I used to work had one for example. The non-standard colour is often a hint, though I've seen them still red as well.

And your second wiki link should end Software not Software/ ...

And on the page itself I've just updated the second Max Speed Map entry as it had a | where it didn't need one.