[talk-au] boundary=aboriginal_lands ( Was Re: admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?)

[Andrew Harvey]

If this is not disputed, it would be nice to update
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Australia.E2.80.99s_First_People
with this information otherwise it'll get lost over time in the archives
here.

On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 19:58, Andrew Davidson <theswavu at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30/11/21 17:51, stevea wrote:
> >
> > This is REALLY going to be different in Oz than USA, but please consider
> boundary=aboriginal_lands.
>
> boundary=aboriginal_lands is not applicable to Australia for at least
> two reasons:
>
> 1. Australia does not have a system of "reservations". Before the 1960s
> there were Aboriginal reserve
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_reserve). But these no longer
> exist for fairly obvious reasons.
>
> 2. Where Indigenous land rights have been recognised in Australia
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_land_rights_in_Australia) this
> is done by issuing a communally owned freehold or leasehold title. In
> effect this is the same as anyone else who owns land in Australia.
>
> The other concept that seems to confuse mappers is the Indigenous
> Protected Area
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Protected_Area). This is an
> area protected by indigenous people rather than for protecting
> indigenous people. The areas have a IUCN protection category so should
> be protect_class 1-6.
>
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