This changeset reverts the addition of a new “America” continent boundary. While the comment noted that “America consists of North America and South America,” this kind of feature is not appropriate for OpenStreetMap:

* A continent is not a `type=boundary`. Boundaries in OSM are for things like administrative areas or protected regions, and they require polygons, not points.  
* Points cannot form a valid boundary relation.  
* It is also inappropriate to tag this as `place=continent` — that tag is reserved for established continent features already agreed upon in OSM.  
* Entire continents are not mapped as polygon boundaries in OSM — this is outside the project’s scope and not verifiable on the ground.

For questions or discussion about how continents or other large geographic concepts should be represented, please contact the Data Working Group at data@openstreetmap.org referencing case #2025100310000204.

— Elliott Plack  
OSMF Data Working Group
