In some cultures smiling means negative intentions, does that mean we need to remove all photos of people smiling? Some cultures don’t like photographs of people, should we not post pictures at all? You may have said please but you couched the photo in antagonistic terms and thus left a bitter taste in some mouths. Perhaps in the future you might send a message to the author about it rather than post it in the comments, which really should be about the actual content of the article rather than possible implied hand gestures as interpreted by small subsets of the global population.

Clifford, I did open the shapefile in JOSM and copy it in, the person who redacted it called that an import.

My goal was to match the buildings with use while in town, the majority of them being residential houses excepting the downtown area where an on the ground evaluation would be appropriate. As for the import process I don’t disagree something has to be in place but for consistently good contributors a stream lined process may be needed. If a city does a large import through the process they would have to go back through it anytime they wished to maintain it. An example would be new subdivisions within a rapidly growing city. Frisco Texas has often ranked high in lists of fastest growing cities in the U.S. and if they wished to upload new addresses for a new subdivision they would need to use this process even if it were for only 30 items. Same would be said for placing the building footprints. If they have already created these items in ArcGIS why would they want to have to do it a second time to upload it to OSM, especially when they had new subdivisions coming on every couple of months? That is where is see an issue.