Yes, we surveyed the area and have collected street level imagery across the IIT Delhi campus. You can view the images here:
https://map.footpath.ai/#center=16.13/28.54256/77.198197

We totally understand the concerns here. None of our contributions have been "automated uploads". While we do automated detection from the imagery we collect, we still do human verification. We have only uploaded the data that we have high confidence in its quality. Some mistakes still remain even after human validation due to the scale of the data.

We are adding more details to our wiki page on our process. We will also introduce new licensing terms for the OSM mappers and will add it to our website and Wiki page. We are here to make positive contributions, not creating risks or damages. Happy to abide by whatever the guidelines and the community states. Happy to modify and enhance our process, so we can continue contributing.

The source images are available here: https://map.footpath.ai/#center=17.82/-33.893735/151.263428

You are right about the case here. Upon checking again, I can see that 2 are trees but the other 2 should have been coded as plant boxes (man_made=planter), not trees.

Apologies for the overlook. We did follow the OSM technical guidelines on bulk data upload such as human validation, conflation, removing duplicates, and use of appropriate tags. What we overlooked is the discussion with the local community and getting the Wiki page up for our organized/automated edits. Will get those done shortly with clear documentation on our approach. For the records, we did present our approach a few times at the State of the Map conferences. See this from SOTM US 2023: https://youtu.be/wzptabAJ9D0?feature=shared

Hi. You're right. I'll remove the unnecessary tags. Will only keep the "nature = tree". Thank you for the comment.