[Talk-ca] Proposal: Removing imported aboriginal land

[Steve Singer]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Paul Norman wrote:

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> In 2010 acrosscanadatrails imported Aboriginal reserves. An example is
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1016901
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> These are viewable all the way out to z4.
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> I propose removing these for a few reasons.
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> 1.       From what I’ve seen, no one has edited these to improve them.
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> 2.       Acrosscanadatrails has not agreed to the CTs. He has indicated his
> contributions are public domain, so the data could be downloaded and
> reimported, but I do not believe that should be done.

This is the only of your four points that I see as a good reason to delete 
data. Once we start deleting non-ct data it will need to be deleted or 
re-imported. If your going around and deleting data from non-ct acceptors I 
wouldn't let the public domain declaration stop you from deleting Sam's data 
at the same time.

We don't normally delete (imported or otherwise) with 
questionable tagging then we fix the tagging.  However I wouldn't want to 
see anyone importing more of these boundaries until the tagging issues are 
sorted out.

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> 3.       The tagging is questionable, with two FIXMEs. They are tagged with
> admin_level=4, the same as provinces, which misrepresents their importance.
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> 4.       The tagging for aboriginal lands is not settled. See
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:boundary#First_Nations for some
> discussion. Although this shouldn’t stop people from mapping them, I believe
> it should stop them from being imported.
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Steve