This changeset has been reverted. The way the border was represented originally was correct, and either way the legal border is the west bank, not the center.

Hello, I see that you have just joined OpenStreetMap and have started to make many edits around Dothan. Some of the changes you have made have been incorrect and/or harmful to the map. I have spent many hours improving the Dothan area and would appreciate it if you could take some time to learn how we as a community make edits so that you don't introduce any more errors.

Thank you

Very possible that TIGER is using old river data, but in this case I don't think it matters. I'm pretty sure the way it works is that if there is a natural shift in the river over time that isn't extreme the boundary follows the river, though that's something I'll let the lawyers figure out

https://archive.org/details/alabama-acts-1903/page/n41/mode/2up Page 44
There are 3 different definitions of the county border on the parcel viewer, and anything short of a survey of the PLSS markers that make up the boundary is going to be inaccurate.

Took some time wrangling josm to show what was actually changed since osmcha isnt working. You can disregard my previous comment. Seems like Houston county is the only bad border update here. I'll go change it back. Sorry about the confusion

For the most part thanks for doing this, but please check if the imported geometry is actually replacing old TIGER data rather than ways that have been updated by users since. For instance in Houston county (my area), the public domain record of the counties establishment define part of the border with Dale county as the west and north bank of the Choctawhatchee and Little Choctawhatchee rivers, which has been reverted back to the inaccurate TIGER data with this changeset. I have not looked around the rest of the state, that's just what I've noticed so far. Thanks

Hey just a heads up Bing imagery is the most up to date in all of SE Alabama from what I've seen. Its recently been updated and its much better quality than before

Hey, one thing you have to keep in mind with mapping buildings is that the imagery isn't straight down. An example is the administration building. You can see the east wall of the building and it can get confusing. What I try to do is map the roof then move the area to fit the bottom the best I can

It looks like this changeset has duplicated some parts of 231