Jbensman,
I realize this discussion has been one-on-one so far, but what Hufkratzer says does reflect community-wide consensus. While there is no OSM police, moderators absolutely do ensure OSM principles are applied by correcting data such as that which you have mapped.

Edit-measuring contests are childish, and don't work in your favor anyhow, as Hufkratzer has contributed to the OSM wiki and various code repositories. What you are doing is called "tagging for the renderer", which you can read about on said wiki. The basic principle is to not break OSM just to fix some map. Using the wrong tag might make sense for your use, but it confuses everyone else.

Hufkratzer has very nicely offered several solutions that don't go against the principles of the site. No one is trying to make themselves "feel important", we're just trying to improve the correctness of the map. Your map is no more valuable than anyone else's. Keep that in mind when deciding whether it's a big deal to "break" it for everyone else for your own needs.