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

[Andy Anderson]

I think that’s a mistake. In this area it’s probably the standard 100-foot buffer adjacent to the river that might qualify for a polygon (IMHO). I see something like that there, perhaps the person simply copied that over when creating the proposed housing development?

— Andy

> On Jul 13, 2019, at 9:23 AM, Alan & Ruth Bragg <alan.ruth.bragg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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