There is much chaos with the rivers: Many unconnected pieces and most of them lack intermittent=yes, since they are wadis:
May you please help firesoulhc and me at the effort to clean this all up? It’s some kind of humanitarian effort, but not in the focus of the official HOT.
Oh, I just meant, create an empty edit layer in JOSM, draw a closed way around the area of interest and then save that layer as a .osm file and send it to me.
Someone has to create something like to make an imagery request.
Imagery over this area, and Syria in particular is not easy to obtain.
If you were mostly interested in roads, that would be easier, but hi-res imagery for mapping buildings, as I said, is probably somewhat difficult to get, but it does not hurt to ask.