Hello and thanks for the quick reply!

I am currently unable to locate that area that I stumbled across. I would recommend to take a bit more care about details.

When not sure (is this really a pond? / is this actually intermittent, or does it only have different water levels during the year? / is this actually a lake or rather wetland?) I would rather leave it to other mappers with local knowledge. I know the US does not have the same mapper density as Europe, and I do appreciate your work but in general OSM prefers quality over quantity, meaning an empty map is preferred over wrong data usually.

Areas that flood after heavy rain are no ponds but get https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:flood_prone as a tag.

I don't know how you do that, but I would not be able to tell if an area has low elevation (which does not automatically mean it's flood prone) from aerial imagery.

After looking through the data I noticed e.g. these two objects that are not a lake really...

- https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1189035642

- https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1189035640

And there are many more examples. So please, take some time to manually connect / merge things that belong together and make the coastlines resemble reality :-)

Concerning relations: in favour of future mappers and / or beginners keep them small and only use them when needed. Some areas in OSM are basically "blocked" for further mapping as in the old days some huge convoluted MP relations have been mapped that no one wants to cope with nowadays. So we try to avoid making the same mistake again.

If you need help, let me know!

All the best to you!