The data that has been uploaded is my data as it is in a completely different format than it was originally, even then I acknowledged the original dataset from which it was derived.

As for spot checking it is a highly inaccurate way to see vegetation as your eye is not as sensitive as the sensor, the aerials may be from too high to notice nuance, their quality might be too low, and as they are snapshots in time the vegetation may have changed.

As I have been told by others and have read by others that this method of mapping is not an import then I am afraid we will have to disagree on that issue. Your doubts are neither here nor there.

As to the quality I am sure I can go through your edits and take issue with quality, it is a matter of opinion and taste and something one has to learn to deal with in a volunteer based cooperative environment. As this area doesn't tread on your toes in your area of work and I am far more local to it than you (my family lives and owns land in this area) I believe that I should have more say in the matter as we tend to give more credence to the mapper closer to that which is being mapped.

If you do feel extremely strong in your opinion feel free to report the edit to the proper authorities and they can do as they please.

It isn't an import, I made it. As for the quality it is derived from semi automated classification of aerial imagery with an infrared sensor by the organization in question which is distributed as a faster file under an open license. From that file I polygonized the different expertly classified vegetation so that it would be compatible with the map. I then ran smoothing over that and removed areas that were smaller than 100 sq ft as they were usually in areas of urban development. After that to remove extraneous nodes I simplified the edges. After all of this geoprocessing was done I brought the file into JOSM and checked that the vegetation didn't overlap roads, buildings, parking lots, or water features (which if we want to talk about quality why not the edges of lakes). Then I copied the features into the map in JOSM and uploaded it. It is very similar to natural features found in European countries (Germany for example) where it is nice to differentiate between urban and more natural settings. My plan is to continue with other counties in the surrounding area. As the features were created solely by me through geoprocessing and as I copied them into the map myself I do not think it qualifies as an import and the claim that the quality is low doesn't really hold as the classification on the original raster frown which these faces are derived was done by professionals. To add to that the geoprocessing was also done by a professional as I am an independent GIS consultant with over 10 years of experience.

Just noticed you deleted the scrub I added to the map. What was your reasoning behind this decision? The tag isn't deprecated and as the land in question belongs to my family I can verify the vegetation type.

Yeah I mentioned I had forgot to set one up in the task comment. Working on that now.

I would also like to point out that another user told me that what I did was not an import so I suppose I would like some clarification of what your definition of an import is if it differs from the official one and whether or not you think opening a shapefile in JOSM and copying the contents and cleaning any errors would be considered an import.

Forgive me, I did not know what I was doing was in fact what was defined as importing as I am an individual and not an entity. With reading the import protocols and seeing that its application is not restricted to large entities or large data sets I see that I was in error.