Marko,

Thanks for the comments.
There could have been some MultiPolygonRelation errors related to coastlines. I should mention that the checks in JOSM Validator and mkgmap are not overlapping that much. JOSM detects some things better, but it does not detect land-on-land or sea-on-sea situations as well as mkgmap, as it does not "colour" the areas.
mkgmap came up with many errors relating to 'anti-islands' - I suspect these are round Scotland, and I'll leave it to local people to sort them out!
But using Bartosz's coastlines-europe file solved the problem (once I 
had remembered to reference it before the data files), at the expense 
of a rather larger gmapsupp file.
OK, in that case the issue might be that the Geofabrik cutting polygon 
is intersecting with some islets that have been added or moved fairly 
recently.
This seems possible. On closer inspection, I saw a little flooding on the England/Wales border too.
The Europe coastline at http://fabianowski.eu/osm/coastlines/ looks like 
it could be loaded into JOSM on a computer with enough RAM.

It could be an interesting exercise to ask Frederik Ramm for the cutting 
polygon in *.osm format and load it and the coastlines in JOSM, to see 
if the Geofabrik polygon can be improved. I did this for Finland a 
couple of years ago. In addition to the coastline, I observed the 
country border and a few lakes near the border when I edited the cutting 
polygon. It took a couple of iterations to get it fully right.
I think I'll leave this to someone with a bigger computer and more time and expertise. At present, I am not a JOSM or OSMOSIS user.

Thanks for the interest and advice.

Roger
	Marko
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