[Tagging] Mapping autonomous regions
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursamundi.org
Tue Aug 10 04:18:32 BST 2010
We need to come up with a better way to map and tag autonomous regions,
particularly in North America. The talk page for the boundary= suggests
that an administrative boundary is not the right tag; and I couldn't
disagree more.
As a Cherokee, I find boundary=indian_reserve and boundary=native_nation
to be intrinsically racist. While admin_level=1 is probably not right, I
believe First Nations lines are administrative boundaries, the
admin_level=* of which must reflect the degree of sovereignty agreed upon
by treaty between the nation in question and the United States (or other
potentially subjugating force). For example, the Cherokee Nation would be
admin_level=2, whereas The Confederated Tribes of Grande Rhonde would be
somewhere closer to the 3-5 range, and even smaller nations that got more
heavily screwed over by the United States might fall in the 6-8 range.
Yes, I realize this means Canada and the US and their member provinces,
states, ridings and counties, would get turned into swiss cheese by most
renderers, but are we looking for a map that looks like every other map,
or a map that is accurate and objectively reflects the ground and legal
truth?
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