OSM is intimidating in that there are a lot of tags and conventions that are slowly changing.

When flipping through backgrounds, you'll find they all have different offsets.  If you're not sure what is correct, most people in the US align/offset the other aerials to Bing.

While your changes are public, there's actually very few people who will check your work unless you're mapping in area close to another person's.  The number of daily mappers for Northern NJ can be counted on one hand with fingers to spare.

Lessons I learned the hard way...

1. Just cause it's on the map doesn't mean it's an approved way of doing things.

2. Don't glue/connect landuse to roads, go to the edge of roads.  This is the most common mistake you'll see on the map that is very slowly being cleaned up.

You can join the discord or Reddit if you're not sure how to do something.  Good chance you're not the first person to run into a problem.