[Imports] Fwd: Importing West Virginia State Forests Boundary

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 09:36 2021-08-13, Attila Kun đã viết:
> I just noticed this in Seneca State Forest this close call of boundary 
> overlapping to Rimel WMA, but because i'm doing the raw import where i 
> check any data issues like self-intersections, incomplete boundaries 
> etc, maybe me on the main account or someone else should fix this issue.
> 
> I thoroughly checked the borders so where it was possible i said "yeah, 
> this is OK" or "this should be fixed at certain points".
> 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/13087452
> 
> Also, for some reason Nominatim haven't cached the recently imported 
> boundaries yet, but i hope it will do once.
> 
> About the two existing forest boundaries i mentioned, they will be kept, 
> since i have some uncertainty on the forest boundaries of it when 
> compared the both, and the USGS version seemed to be more accurate, 
> because that was only in the forest, the WVGIS boundary was overlapping 
> a property.
> 
> To be honest, most of the imports didn't even say a word if there's 
> something wrong with them, so that's why i gave this attention.

All the wildlife management areas in West Virginia were apparently 
sourced from the USGS PAD-US database. [1] That national-level database 
is aggregated from local sources, analogous to how TIGER and NAD are 
compiled. Given the discussion on [1], I don't think we can be sure that 
the imported WMA data lines up with the actual data in PAD-US. Some of 
the WMA boundaries have been manually corrected based on imagery 
overlays, but seemingly not all. [2] So definitely don't conflate the 
WVDOF data to the existing WMA boundaries until we're sure about that.

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/85694417
[2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/91787231

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