The most important reason why we “don’t like using other’s data for OSM” is, it could be copyrighted! We are basically a giant international hobbyproject, which apart from, some donations now and then, doesn’t make any money. This is one reason why we want to (legally) stay “whiter than white”. We just don’t want to risk anyone sending their lawyers after us.

Also before you even consider an import, make sure you read and understand osm.wiki/Import

Well… You are welcome to map them then :-)

Note that the “or” between highway=residential & highway=tertiary appears to have caused the formatting of my previous comment

@Glassman The OSMI warnings are in fact useful (which is why I check them). Removing them is not a real option

@Horza Those sidewalks. You’re not familiar with Overpass queries?

One really annoying issue with all these driveways in some areas is that many of them end close enough to each other to get flagged on OSMI etc. I’ve tried explaining the problem to some of the creators, but unfortunately they don’t appear to get it and so it’s purely up to regular OSMI users like myself to put noexit tags at the last node of every damn one of all these driveways created by other people :-(

In my country I’m seeing a few entusiastic hobbyists adding very short driveways, while I personally would only ever add longer driveways. My stance is that very short driveways doesn’t really have much practical value. But I guess this is one of those issues that are up to personal judgement.