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

[Greg Troxel]

"Alan & Ruth Bragg" <alan.ruth.bragg at gmail.com> writes:

> 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


I'm not trying to say I'm opposed to removing these.  I was trying to
ask if we know how this data relates to current MassGIS data and what
that means.  So far, I don't understand that, and thus I don't feel that
I can have an informed opinion about the situation.

It may be possible to separate actual parcels that protect water
supplies and these zones.   The former seems legitimate and useful, and
the latter much less so.