Thanks, much appreciated!

I don't quite follow what you mean. I can see in your changeset that you imported the islands but tagged them as water. It's clearly a tagging mistake. Who else was involved in this? Where's the wiki page for this import?

Here's another example way/426699269 which I have not fixed. It's an invisible island because it's tagged as water and thus rendered was water.

I noticed some of the islands of lakes, tagged as inner relation of the lake, have also been tagged as natural=water. The islands are not water. An example of this are the islands in Patterson Lake (eg way/426680908). I've fixed those, but the rest of this import needs to be checked and corrected.

Is this import part of this CanVec import?: osm.wiki/CanVec/OSM_Map_Features

ya I do recall there being about a dozen or so camp pitches around that side of the lake and I even took a picture of the map of the campsite. I wish OSM had that similar to OpenStreetCam except upload pictures of trail maps and information posts.

They are different. There are several wooden platforms at each campsite for people to pitch their tent on. So based on current OSM tagging scheme, there would be several tourism=camp_pitch for each tourism=camp_site. So the automated edit was correct in updating the tags but I'd imagine it was reverted because it was automated.

great, thanks!

There are many (100's?) of single points that only contain elevation data that appear to follow a route down one of the runs. Was there a purpose for this?

You created way way/544650290/history as highway=path. However when I was there there obvious path nor any indication of such on the maps. Is it a winter trail? I opened a note about it note/1819940 but you wouldn't have been notified about it.

It's nice to re-use keys and not create new ones, but I think freebeer makes a good point. Self_service=* is a little too ambiguous and there are many possible combinations of tags to be able to easily exhaustively search them. For example it could be applied to landuse=orchards, farmland, greenhouse, etc. This also makes it easier to make errors and harder to detect them. I put together osm.wiki/Pick-your-own which includes link to a previous discussion on this.

Except anyone can edit the wiki. And turns out it's a single person who added that, not a community decision. I addressed it on the talk page of produce=*
In the meantime I changed the tags to what makes more sense and more commonly used. Thanks for pointing this out.

I was wondering the same thing, but was following the suggested tagging scheme on produce=*#Farm_Produce. I would prefer the way you suggested; keep it simple. Maybe the wiki should be changed.

way/485724458 which was an area for the neighborhood Lindenlea is now broken into 3 ways (485724458, 504505358, 504505356). How did this happen? I'm trying to determine if this is a mistake that's easy to make in JOSM or a rare mapping mistake.

Funny, sounds like a case of the left hand not talking to the right hand.

Thanks for the email. It's funny they don't publish that publicly, I can't seem to find it but it is on their map: http://maps.ottawa.ca/geoOttawa/

Looking at street-level imagery, the road sign isn't hyphenated either.

Thanks. The road is hyphenated on OSM, but should it be? The mall isn't hyphenated

The CU and Ottawa datasets are the same for 2014 judging by your screenshot. Here's a side-by-side of the house you added and the 2014 imagery http://imgur.com/a/pQZwP. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a house somewhere else with an incorrect footprint matching this house. I think this strongly reinforces the importance of the import guidelines.

That's really awesome about https://github.com/ngageoint/hootenanny. There are so many powerful tools which I dream about for making mapping much more fun and safe for everyone. I'm not sure where I see it mentioned about forking though. Many one-off contributors are just as important as massive imports. I think it's a symbiotic relationship.

After reading http://lifehacker.com/193343/ask-the-law-geek--is-publishing-screenshots-fair-use I'd say it's pretty damn safe to share a screenshot. But it looks like it's the same as what's hosted at http://maps.ottawa.ca. You can access JS slippy maps and WMTS api via http://maps.ottawa.ca/arcgis/rest/services. It'd be nice to know what the licensing is on it, I'd love to use it for OSM. Do you know who to ask? Otherwise I'll try to find someone. Reading http://maps.ottawa.ca/geoottawa/help/en/FAQ.htm suggests that at least the 2005 air photo dataset is under opendata 2.0.
But looking at the air photos from maps.ottawa.ca throughout the years, it's still puzzling as to how you managed to end up with those footprints. That one way is of a completely different shape of house.

I agree nobody likes it when people are breathing down your neck and it's a waste of time checking every edit. However you have attracted some attention to yourself by some less-orthodox editing practices. But hopefully you'll be able to regain peoples trust. There are good reasons why I care about how large edits are carried out and where the data comes from such as avoiding mass errors and legal fees. It would be quite easy for a organization to check if any of their data has been imported. If your editing practices are acceptable, then I am totally behind the work you are doing and really appreciate it. For example I like that most of the bus stops have been mapped around Ottawa, a good step towards mapping the transit system.