[Talk-ca] Aboriginal Lands

[Tyler Gunn]

> It is possible to include Aboriginal Lands in the next release of
> Canvec.osm. However, I'm trying to find a consensus in the community
> concerning the tags/values to use?
> I've found some links to…
> - boundary=administrative; admin_level =aboriginal_land
> - boundary=administrative; admin_level =2 to 4
> - boundary=protected_area; protect_class=24

I'm curious how this information would be represented given the
distribution of CanVec data in a tiled format?   Given that
administrative boundaries tend to span larger areas, I don't know if
it would make sense to split these at tile boundaries.  Were you
thinking to provide these boundaries in a separate file of sorts?

How these boundaries are represented should perhaps be driven from
where they fit into the overall picture in terms of how Canada is
split up?

When I think of things like the country, provinces, territories,
cities/towns/etc, these all fit nicely into the
boundary=administrative and admin_level hierarchy.
We have separate boundary types for provincial parks, national parks,
etc, and I'd probably interpret the aboriginal lands the same way.

So I think its entirely reasonable to represent these as:
boundary=aboriginal_land

Tyler