[Talk-us] tagging a national forest boundary

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think you should imply that there is a "natural=forest" boundary
> logically separate from the National Forest's boundary. Assuming you're
> using USFS's shapefiles, there should be one thing in there: the boundary of
> the national forest. If there are "holes in the forest" anywhere (including
> directly on the external border), then they should be inner polygons of a
> multipolygon.

There are two separate definitions of what the national forest is. On
http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5192654.pdf
there's the dark green line ("national forest boundary"), but not
everything inside it is light green fill ("national forest land").
Both are in the shapefiles.