Please save in between edits in widely spaced areas. Some people keep an eye on their local areas based on the bounding boxes of edits.

The inevitable collateral of this sort of blind find and delete edit is one of the main reasons for the longstanding policy against this sort of slapdash mechanical edits.

Here you took genuine edits by people trying to improve things and instead of manually reviewing them to see what the correct tagging might be you have just done a find and delete on edits using words you don't like.

There are reasons for the policy against this.

osm.wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct

Node 6101995487 looks like it was a tourism=aquarium added by someone without enough OSM experience. to know the correct tag. Are you saying that all 1.4k aquariums in the database should be summarily deleted?

Also all 65k natural=cave_entrance? (6006695609)

Have you been to both of these places to make sure they don't exist on the ground?

Most of these appear to be entrances to tourist things, slightly mis-tagged, but how are they spam?

This change appears to have placed a doctors office at 0°N 0°W, rather than somewhere in Canada. I think this was probably a mistake?

Also Cuba and Costa Rica.

What is your source for the access tag?

What is your source for the speed limits?

Please save between adding/editing things in one area and editing in another.

Hello,
There is new Bing and Esri imagery of this marina now so I have tried to update it. If you have time it would be great if you could have a look to see if my updates are the way you remember it.
www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/158477644
https://osmcha.org/changesets/158477644

Source?

What is your source for this edit?

To me the main difference between `reef` and `shoal` is that the shoals are normally loose material and so they tend to be a bit gentler.

The dramatic increase in the size of ships in the last century has stretched what might be considered a hazard to navigation, but I think in general the presence of shallows near shore is a thing to be generally expected and reflected in bathymetry (and proper non-OSM charts) rather than something to treated as individual features.

If it counts for anything most Bahamian near-shore areas would be more natural=shoal than reef and telling them apart on imagery can be very difficult.

Most of them are already within subsea=areas that the really big ships would tend to avoid.

As reefs are normally hard shallow areas that pose a hazard to boats I don't think an area encompassing a marina and several docks really qualifies.

I don't know how that is calculated but it probably just includes the land. I don't know how much of the mangrove on the north shore has been included in the "land area" either.

If you mean the wikipedia page for Freeport itself then I don't know where the little image comes from. As it appears to exclude the main harbour, the airport, Bahamia and other areas that are administered as part of Freeport I wouldn't put too much weight on it.

The OSM boundaries looked similar to the ones on Wikipedia until I attempted to improve them. The boundaries I did were very rough from local knowledge. The original settlements that pre-date Freeport were excluded from the newly formed Port Area and so were excluded from the "City of Freeport" relation.

I don't know of an official source for the current boundaries that is suitably licensed for OSM. When I attempted to read the legislation defining the boundaries of the local government districts it appeared that they were assembled from electoral polling divisions and the polling divisions were only available in maps with a copyright notice that appeared to me (as someone without legal training) to go against the OSMF guidance on what is acceptable for use as a source in OSM.

I would like to do a revision at some point to lower the `admin_level` of these to a level close to what you see for local government in e.g. England and make a distinction between the single level and dual level districts and town areas but without a suitable source I'm not sure how much value there is in this.

Please don't just delete things you don't understand.

This was an error that was easy to fix. Even without a fix in place it contained useful information.

The issue is that that map is on a page that's "© Disney Copyright 2024. All Rights Reserved". Unless a map has specific permission for OSM to use or is under a limited number of pre-reviewed licenses they generally can't be used for improving OSM.
osm.wiki/Copyright

The most likely place for up to date (but low res) imagery for tracing is Sentinel 2, but they've recently completely changed the way the distribute data so I haven't had the chance to look at how it has to be accessed these days.

Awesome. I hope you had a great trip.

I have not followed this closely as my main interest is on another island, but I was under the impression that the public access to the southern point was meant to be maintained after the project was complete.

Of course on the ground survey is of course preferred to promises as far as OSM is concerned.