<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><br>Some thoughts supporting the inclusion of this data: <br><br>It seems that it is just about as unlikely that state, county and city boundaries will be improved, but they are in OSM. <br><br>
</div>Some improvement may be possible, as the boundaries to Federal land are often demarcated with signs or survey monuments. In addition, there is value in making these boundaries consistent with other elements in OSM, such as the aforementioned county boundaries. For example, if one knows that the BLM land and the county share the same boundary, they can be "snapped" together. <br>
<br></div>If I am a data user, for example, if I were to start a website dedicated to hiking maps and I had to choose between proprietary data and OSM, the completeness of the data is something that I would consider. Sure, I could get the BLM data myself, and add it into my web maps, but that is just one more step, and the BLM data is not likely to be consistent with the OSM data (see above), thus making a messy map. <br>
<br></div>Mike<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Jeff Meyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff@gwhat.org" target="_blank">jeff@gwhat.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Isn't that true of all data in the database?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Ian Dees <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com" target="_blank">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Paul Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org" target="_blank">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Monday, January 7, 2013, Ian Dees wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Nathan Mixter <span dir="ltr"><<a>nmixter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It would be awesome to include the land ownership data from BLM especially if we could do it for the whole US. Unfortunately that is probably not something that people would want to add because of the conflicts with other data. I wonder if we could include it on a limited basis or only include certain features.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>We just had this conversation a couple threads ago. This sort of land ownership border doesn't really belong in OSM because we can't improve it. It's already in OSM because some people imported the BLM data so they could see national park boundaries.</div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just because we can't improve it doesn't mean it can't improve the map. </div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>I disagree. If we can't improve it then the only thing it can do is sit in the database and become wrong.</div>
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