I did say roughly. I did not use google translate. Mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut. Side job still qualifies as a job. It means you probably know woodpeck personally in real life (judging that geofabrik is not that big of a company)

@mikelmaron while I do agree with you, it's easy to police people into obeying Guildelines(which by definition should be a suggested coarse of action instead of a hardset rule book that if you don't obey you get reverted) to a T when you work with someone from the DWG:
From:
osm.wiki/User:Nakaner

Derzeit studiere ich Geodäsie und Geoinformatik (Master) am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie und habe einen Nebenjob in der Geofabrik.

Which translates roughly to I have a job at geofabrik. Coincidently the person that is reverting all of our work (woodpeck) is a co-founder of Geofabrik. Ever since the mass revert in Canada's north: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2016-September/007225.html
Nakaner has had it out for myself, Rps333 and DenisCarriere.

He's even gone into my history as far as one year back and threatened to revert the data:
osm.org/changeset/33248922 which I feel is harassment and has made me want to quit contributing to OSM as a whole(which shouldn't be the atmosphere in the community)

I have also added Gatineau to the import catalog here:
osm.wiki/Import/Catalogue

Thank you for your understanding. Good day.

Michael please see:
osm.wiki/Gatineau/Import#Follow_up_permission
Which clears up any doubt you had.
This puts us on par with Montreal's open data catalog where they needed permission due to CC-BY-4.0

Micheal please see Données ouvertes de la Ville de Montréal which has the same license as Gatineau and is approved with the same exception(give explicit permission).
osm.wiki/w/index.php?title=Import/Catalogue&oldid=1359164

This is why I told you not to use google translate. The permission is given if we give them attribution on the osm.wiki/Contributors page

As I've said: I had asked them if adding them to osm.wiki/Contributors
Was sufficient. I also added them to the source because it's the right thing to do.

Their response was that it was sufficient attribution. End of story

I also ran the text in google translate and it gives nothing remotely intelligible:

We attribute to use and import our addresses in the OpenStreetMap project only if you give us the award as a data source.

Regards,

Gatineau's Communications Department

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Really? "give us the award as a data source." and you are going to use that as a basis for legal obligations?

I cannot post the request sent to them as it was through a contact form and is in french, which you wouldnt understand anyways. I had asked them if adding them to osm.wiki/Contributors
Was sufficient. I also added them to the source because it's the right thing to do.

Also I was not aware of the import catalog at the time. I will add it later today.

Are you daft? I just told you this dates back from 2013. Also using google translate for a legal acceptance, should not be a practice to maintain

F.y.i: osm.wiki/Gatineau/Import

Oh it is a legal addition of data, i'm just not going to put forward the effort to dig up documentation for you

Hello Michael, you can find this information by yourself I have officially quit contributing to OSM this agreement dates back to 2013. Have a nice day.

Thanks, I reported it.

Ottawa's building traces are more accurate and are more accurately aligned instead of aligning to Bing. Statistics Canada is supposed to be the ones responsible for the documentation

You can thank Ottawa for that. We are currently working on a project with Statistics Canada (osm.wiki/WikiProject_Canada#Crowdsourcing_buildings_with_Statistics_Canada)
We needed to add addresses and building footprints. Our second pass (after adding addresses(from Ottawa) and building foot prints(from Ottawa)) is to merge both together.
Example:
osm.org/changeset/42916632
and
osm.org/changeset/42915900
Their project is going live the 17th of October and could possibly be very beneficial to the OSM community as it will ask the community to add building details such as building levels and other useful attributes. Please be patient while we are actively adding this data in anticipation of receiving crowd sourced data. This is a pilot project. If we do other cities, it will be much more organized and with better data.

This is part of a project involving statistics canada. Documentation can be found here: osm.wiki/WikiProject_Canada#Crowdsourcing_buildings_with_Statistics_Canada

Original data was probably from NRCan v6.0(which is acient and innacurate in building footprints). Data footprints being added are traced on 30cm imagery and correctly positionned. Copying attributes to new geometry and deleting the old is quicker and more effecient than trying to align old geometry to new ones.

Uh?