Hello mdavenport1985, and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

I’m sending this message to you as one that you have to read before continuing to edit because you may not be getting emails for changeset discussion comments - perhaps your email is broken?

As I tried to explain on the longer comment on https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/53348097 , in some of the changes that you are making such as https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/536717413 I think you may be “overinterpreting” the imagery somewhat.

If you look at the different imagery choices available you can get a feeling for the scale quite well, and its clear that none or almost none of the buildings that you’ve added here actually are buildings (that’s clear with both Bing and your custom imagery - in fact your custom imagery, if later, suggests that buildings shown on Bing have been removed).

Assuming you’re not in the West Bank at the moment, what I’d suggest is that you try mapping things more locally to you first - often it’s useful to look at the imagery of a place you know well to see how certain features look from the air. It can be difficult to tell roads from e.g. riverbeds if you’re not careful.

If you’re in the UK (guessing, based on your editor locale of en-GB above) then there are lots of local groups both HOT-based and non-HOT based where you can discuss mapping; there are also mailing lists and other forums - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact has lots of details. Alternatively, you can contact the Data Working Group directly by email on data@osmfoundation.org.uk .

If your email is broken, you can see the comments that people have left on your changesets at http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=6744070 . You can reply to any of those by clicking on the changeset number, scrolling down to the comment box, typing in a comment and clicking “comment”.

You’ll be able to continue mapping as soon as you’ve read this message, but please do take a bit more care with what you are adding.

Best Regards,

Andy Townsend, on behalf of OSM’s Data Working Group.