[Talk-ca] Aboriginal Lands in the territories

Clifford Snow clifford at snowandsnow.us
Mon Oct 28 00:35:37 UTC 2019


Sam,
I've added a number of landuse=aboriginal_lands in the US. Although nothing
as large as you mentioned. I strongly encourage you to proceed. Please make
sure if you are actually doing an import to follow the import guidelines
[1] including verification that the data is licensed suitable for import to
OSM. If you can, add the name in the native language as well as English and
French.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines

Best,
Clifford

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 5:22 PM Sam Dyck <samueldyck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all
>
> It's been awhile since I've had the time to do more than casual editing,
> but I'm looking at an import project in the territories and want to make
> sure there aren't going to be any issues.
>
> I'm hoping to import the land claims land boundaries in the territories
> from NRCan's Aboriginal Lands files. Unlike reserve boundaries, these are
> lands owned by an Indigenous Governing body with a unique governance regime
> set out in a land claims agreement. They generally have few if any
> permanent inhabitants but are used year-round for various purposes by the
> members of Indigenous group as well as non-Indigenous people subject to
> certain conditions. They clearly fit within the definitions set for the
> aboriginal lands tag.
>
> I figured it was important since some of these packages are extremely
> large (e.g. the Tłı̨chǫ lands northeast of Yellowknife are 39,000 sq km,
> most of which are in one giant contiguous piece). As far as I can tell the
> aboriginal lands tag is visible at level 8 and below, so it shouldn't have
> an impact on the map at the lower levels.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Sam
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