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haven't searched for Native American reservations data but there should be something available. If someone knows where to get it and what tags to use it can be done quickly</blockquote><div><br></div>Apo,<div><br></div>
<div><a href="http://nationalatlas.gov/mld/indlanp.html">http://nationalatlas.gov/mld/indlanp.html</a> it's not really the most accurate data (as with most of the national atlas) but it would be a good start. </div><div>
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I think that admin level 1 has merits. The Akwesasne First Nation[1] <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">includes parts of Ontario, Quebec and New York, including a CanAm border crossing. Canadians and Americans must stop at border control in Akwesasne as they pass between Canada and USA. Akwesasne citizens are exempt, and can pass through without stopping.</span></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>That makes it sound like a admin_level=3 would be appropriate. As the citizens from the admin_level=2 are still stopping (I would expect admin_level=1 to supercede all lower levels) and in the US native lands are considered semi soverign while still operating within the federal government and state boundaries. my 2 cents.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But as you say <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">"Jurisdictional nightmare"</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">My cold-clouded position (the weather isn't even changing, stupid rhinovirus!) is, import the US fed atlas data as</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">boundary=administrative</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">admin_level=3</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">boundary_type=native_nation or boundary_type=aboriginal_land</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">do the same for Canada (is it in the CanVec data?) if there's a big problem with admin_level, change it later. Then people can go through and edit the boundaries as appropriate but they will at least have something to work with.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">-Tyler</span></font></div>
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