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.

That's really awesome that aerial imagery is published under their opendata licence. Do you know if anyones converted it to a tile map on a public server? It'd be nice to add it JOSM

Also curious, would you mind posting a screenshot of the imagery you used to trace way/460776119 ?

oops that first example should be way/460575419

Well I'm really quite impressed with the level of detail of the footprints. Both Mapbox or Bing imagery are of such poor quality around here and don't even show a bunch of buildings you mapped such as way/44520310
way/460575471

Could you elaborate on your process?

Hi, just wanted to point out osm.wiki/Good_changeset_comments
Happy mapping!

Hi, how did you go about mapping these footprints?

Hi, how are you mapping these building footprints?

I took a quick look and there seem to be at least a few buildings which don't appear on Bing imagery (and some not even on Mapbox or Google Satellite for that matter)
way/459024661
way/459024610
way/459029092

But meanwhile you seem to have forgotten some obvious ones:
osm.org/#map=19/44.63347/-63.93641

How did you manage to map them if they arn't visible? Also out of curiosity are you new to OSM?

Hi, How did you map these buildings?

Hi, how did you go about mapping these buildings?

I fixed a couple others.
North Gower has (had) both a township (Q14875358) and the town (Q14875357) by the same name.
Alexandria had the wrong wikipedia page. It's a funny one. The coordinates from the Fr page are completely wrong for the town and the coordinates on the other langauage pages are all considerably different.