[Imports] Fwd: Importing West Virginia State Forests Boundary

[Kevin Kenny]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 8:26 AM Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us>
wrote:

> 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.


My guess is that it isn't even the current version of PAD-US, which may
have been adjusted since the import.


> 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]


Correcting boundaries from imagery, unless hedgerows and fence lines are
visible, is pretty fraught. Trees and wetlands often don't respect property
lines.


> So definitely don't conflate the
> WVDOF data to the existing WMA boundaries until we're sure about that.
>

We are singing from the same hymnal here!

-- 
73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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