Much of the region is marked as basin when that is not its actual usage. I wasn't specifically changing landuse:basin to natural:water and water:basin, but rather mapping how the land is actually used. many areas in this region serve as overflow in extreme weather events, but thats only once every few years, as opposed to it recreational use pretty much every day.

However, it has become irrelevant as an arrogant mapper living in a different part of the US thinks he knows more than people actually living in this area. So, I'm no longer contributing to OSM. I only logged in today to check a classification on something that looked odd near me.

Why not a local meetup instead, I can see if some of the other local mappers who worked on this area are available too?

My apologies Local-Mapper; when I clicked on some of the modifications it showed your handle. When referring the issue to another mapper, he dug a little deeper and saw it was actually someone else. Apologies to you.

You have not responded to this thead.

You stated that to be carved out of the basin, the area would need to be raised. You are now changing from discussing elevation, to being an area used for detention of water.

Other areas of developed land in the area are not raised, and yet are carved out of the basin. This is why they still flood when major flooding events happen, like Harvey, because they are still part of the basin; yet they have been carved out on the political/administrative boundaries that you want to adhere to. Examples include Canyon Gate at Cinco Ranch, Barkers Branch and Barkers Crossing, and pretty much all the housing at Highway 6 and Clay.

So, you propose we don't map whats on the ground, and instead adhere only to administrative/political boundaries.

Check elevation maps for the area, there is not a 'basin' by elevation, rather its a reservoir due to the earthen wall. If you recall Harvey, part of the reason they released the water into west houston was because they were worried the earthen wall could breach.

Then this whole section of Houston needs to be marked as 'basin' because this area is not recessed in contrast to the surrounding area.

This is an administrative distinction, not mapping whats on the ground. If you grew up in these areas, then you should know this whole area is not recessed nor covered in water.

I've sought to edit based on consistency without discriminating by political boundaries or land use. This is the general practice, and has been for years.

You are discriminating land use based on political distinction. If we want to talk about reservoir, technically a bunch o f those housing developments, schools, the West Houston Airport, etc, etc, etc, should all be included. This is why so much of the area was damaged/destroyed by Hurricane Harvey because there aren't significant differences in elevation across Houston basically anywhere.

This issue was addressed years ago. The practice in this area is to carve things out of the 'basin' once the area is developed. You're adjusting maps based on political boundaries, not on reality.

Most of Houston consists of floodplain zones. This was already discussed years ago. The recent change is due to a different editor, who doesn't live in this region, and who doesn't predominately edit this region, just mapping based on political boundaries, just as you are doing now.

Your "corrected basins" in the Houston region does not follow the mapping practices in the area. Large areas of Houston are 'reservoir areas', with more than 300,000 people living within them. When those areas are developed, they are carved out of the basin. Your edits didn't follow this, respecting residential and most commercial developments in reservoir areas, but with no regard for recreational land development. Don't discriminate between different types of land development.

Mapping practice in this region is to card developments out of basins. Do not discriminate on types of development.

Range perimeter is an approximation, as the group does not have a detailed map available. More accurate perimeter will require going on location when the range is not active.

We colloquially refer to them as Bus Barns. Its an open air series of fenced in private parking lots used to store bus for schools in the surrounding areas. Regular maintenance is also done here, and its where the bus drivers check-in and out for work each day.

This was located at 14333 Fern Drive
Houston, TX 77079 in the late 1990s.

It looks like it moved to Katy, and was continually up for closing: https://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fhouston-texas&inlineLink=1&searchindex=solr&query=%22West+Houston+Charter+School%22

It looks like it may have rebranded as Aristoi around 2010.

Satellite imagery taken half a year ago during Hurricane Harvey? Your using imagery from a hurricane that was unprecedented in this region? That couldn't be a more extreme outlier. My edits imply that developed land is treated consistently, without preferential treatment given to cooperate, residential, or recreational.

What are you viewing the historical map data from six months ago on?

Then shouldn't the West Houston Airport, basically all the businesses and subdivisions in the area also fit under that same concept? The basin is carved out for some developed land, but not others? It seems rather inconsistent.