[Talk-ca] First nations boundary tagging

Michael Stark michael60634 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 12 23:00:06 UTC 2023


Those look like electoral areas within regional districts. Essentially the
electoral areas, in this context, are unincorporated areas in the regional
districts.

On Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 5:56 PM Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I operate a site that processes level 7 and 8 administrative boundaries,
> so I spend a fair bit of time fixing these boundaries when they break. I've
> noticed some objects that appear to be First Nations boundaries showing up
> in my list recently, namely:
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11305308
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11370588
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11319666
>
> These have the following names tagged in OSM:
> Area B (South Fraser Canyon/Sunshine Valley)
> Area I (Blue Sky Country)
> Area I (Skaha West/Kaleden/Apex)
>
> Are these correctly tagged as boundary=administrative + admin_level=8?
> Both the constructed name and the boundary=administrative seem incorrect.
> Should these be boundary=aboriginal_lands instead?  Or something else?  Is
> the scheme for name correct?
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