[Talk-us-massachusetts] Should I write a wiki proposal to revert landuse=reservoir_watershed import

Alan & Ruth Bragg alan.ruth.bragg at gmail.com
Sat Jul 13 13:23:51 UTC 2019


Please take a look at this screenshot of typical reservoir_watershed
polygons  (red lines)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/rWWb22Syq5k3RPWh7
What I see is a proposed housing development and plot plans.

2,732  of all 2,740 landuse=reservoir_watershed polygons are in MA.
 There is one OSM wiki for the tag but it says nothing.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q17545
There is no system to maintain or validate the data.
Access to the land is unknown.
There is no way to identify the boundaries on the ground.
It's a spaghetti mess of lines making it hard to distinguish and map real
objects.
Makes OSM less friendly for new users.
The imported data doesn't match current MassGIS L3 overlay in most cases.
There is no rendering that displays the data.
 All this data, and much more is available from MassGIS  on the OLIVER site.
http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/map_ol/oliver.php
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