It seems the user really wants to contribute in the area. I saw they were busy in the middle of the night adding and changing things. I also noticed you flagged a lot of their edits on osmcha.

I made another comment on osm.org/changeset/89106469 which they will hopefully read.

I'm not going to repair things since I suspect they will make more edits today. Maybe once they cool down I'll try to swing by and fix the area up.

Paging edgar77rangel... I would appreciate a response here.

What are your intentions with the map? It seems you are making honest effort edits to improve West Liberty?

Some faults I have found with your changes include:
*descriptive names
*using Bing Imagery instead of Esri Clarity, which is by far the highest quality in West Liberty when zoomed in.
*modifying recently changed features without contacting the prior mapper
*low quality and not squared buildings
*adding non-existent paths and rivers, they don't appear in the up-to-date National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP)
*overlapping roads/paths without connections

I have included the links to 2 guides. I hope you take the time to thoroughly read these guides and browse some of the documentation on the OSM Wiki before contributing further.

https://learnosm.org/en/beginner/id-editor/
osm.wiki/Beginners%27_guide

I checked with the city website, and those areas are very well defined. Since you seem to be more familiar with Cedar Rapids than me, if you want to rename the areas, you have the go ahead from me.

Definitely add in the Taylor and Northwest Neighborhood regions, since they have no labels right now.

I see where you are coming from and understand that OSM is supposed to represent what is on the ground.

Mapping something as an area means that it has well defined edges. This technique works well for administrative districts like counties, city boundaries, or even subdivision boundaries. If an area is residential, then it makes sense to try and split it up by subdivision. The areas may as well have names since someone may refer to them. If you look at it from the perspective of the rendered map, a very small subdivision will only show up at zoom level 100m or 300m, so most users won't even notice.

If a subdivision doesn't have a well defined name, like "palanp's subdivision", then I typically add the tag noname=yes onto the area since no one would refer to it by that name.

To address your concern, if this whole region of Cedar Rapids is referred to by people as Wellington Heights, then that should take precedence over the mapped subdivisions. I assume Wellington heights as the region isn't well defined, so using a node might be the best approach. Tagged with place=suburb or place=quarter, this node would take precedence over the mapped regions. On the map, it would render Wellington Heights instead of the area names.

I hope my suggestion is acceptable to you. At least take it under advisement before axing the areas.

I noticed you made a lot of edits to parks in West Liberty. Some of the parks you added weren't on the map before, so nice work! Some of the features that you changed were already mapped with their correct boundaries. If you don't mind I am going to go ahead and clean up what you contributed.

Mapping roads on OSM does not matter whether they are public or private access. It only matters if the road exists. The access=* tag exists so people can document access if it is signposted.

Looking at your recent changesets it seems you are eager to delete service roads and driveways. These are perfectly valid things to map. They might be better suited with the tags highway=service, service=driveway, access=private. You can add these tags if you want, but you should not delete data if it exists on the ground.

The people mapping driveways in rural Iowa work for Amazon. They currently employ a large number of people who are working to improve coverage of driveways and service roads to businesses. Amazon's goal is to make it easier for delivery drivers to locate residences.

If you simply delete these driveways, you might make it significantly harder for a delivery driver to locate someone's house. They might give up and move onto the next house, leaving the resident without an important piece of postage, like medication or a letter from a grandson.

It's perfectly fine to map driveways. The driveways you are deleting are already marked as access=private. They are rendered differently on the map and routing apps won't use ways marked private.

The name of the city is Little Rock, not Little Rock Arkansas. Also, this Little Rock is in Iowa and not Arkansas.

Is the Trashmore Trail really for racing? Or is it just a regular bike trail?

Per, osm.wiki/Proposed_features/splash_pad and https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=splash_pad#values it appears the accepted tagging for a fountain area in a park is leisure=playground and playground=splash_pad. You changed it to leisure=water_park

You accidentally changed a primary road into a service road

Do you still need these proposed crime watch zones? They aren't even tagged with anything.

What was the point of deleting all the features on the golf course?

They seem to have already been mapped with relatively high quality. I am assuming you are going to remap the course slightly more accurately. Why not adjust the current data to be more accurate. By deleting everything, the associated edit history is lost.

I've got to ask, what was/is the point of doing these large scale low quality imports from RapidAI. Accepting the recommendations without actually correcting anything is basically just mapping for the renderer. The OpenStreetMap basemap might only display the buildings actually mapped, but many 3rd party maps simply overlay Microsoft buildings or another building source over the map. OpenStreetMap is supposed to be of higher quality than these other data sources rather than the exact same.

The whole point of Facebook's software is to facilitate the process of mapping in relatively unmapped regions and to help identify unmapped regions. RapiD uses Maxar imagery, which, at least in this region, is vastly inferior in quality to some of the other imagery. Therefore, any predictions made by there model will be worse than what an actual human can make by using higher quality imagery like Mapbox Satellite.

Additionally, it is very difficult to correct low quality contributions. It is hard to identify, since without close inspection a region with buildings would be assumed to be high quality. Many mappers don't enjoy correcting existing data and would be much more inclined to add data where it does not exist.

You added a ford where there was actually a culvert. Most mapping services will not route over a ford since it could be dangerous.

For the context of Amazon deliveries, this means a driver would instead be routed to the northern Indian Ridge Drive rather than the unnamed residential road. In this case, it might add a couple of minutes to the route. A couple of minutes is money lost. In other cases it could add an hour to the route if a bridge over a major stream is misrepresented as a ford.

You should take a second look at your edit.

You moved Prospect Street so that it cuts straight through people's yards. You marked some people's yards as part of Alta Park. You also connected the edges of the park to the street, it is preferable to have areas come up to the easement and not connect.

If you are going to continue to contribute, it looks like none of the alleys in the town are mapped. That could be something easy to do.

Isn't that website for the city of Moscow. Why would it belong as the website for the entire country of Russia?

Hey, not a huge deal but I noticed when you remapped the track to be an area you didn't bring forward all the tags. I added the tags back onto the track.

Two months ago, I mapped every (hopefully) track in Iowa to help people whose home tracks were shut down find another place to work out. I tagged them all with name, surface, colour, lanes. Overpass Turbo can provide a nice visualization by looking for leisure=track in Iowa.

Good luck fixing up the Wapsi!

Most buildings are constructed to be like rectangles with square 90 degree corners. If you select a building and press Q it will square it. Also if you right click a building one of the options will be to square it.

Buildings are typically constructed to be square. All of the corners are 90 degrees with one another.

If you select an object and press Q it will square the building. Alternatively right click the object and one of the options will square the building.