[Talk-us] Tribal boundaries

[Paul Johnson]

Not having the bandwidth to give it a proper examination at the moment, I
would expect, based on description, that this would be a map of lands held
in trust for various tribes (that which are the subject of the recent
Cobell vs United States case) as opposed to national boundaries of tribes
as they currently exist.

On Monday, December 17, 2012, Clifford Snow wrote:

> You might check out
> nationalatlas.gov/maplayers.html?openChapters=chpbound#chpbound for
> boundaries. They have Indian Lands listed.  The data should be Public
> Domain. The layer shows areas of 640 acres or larger administered by the
> Bureau of Indian Affairs.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Charlotte Wolter <techlady at techlady.com>wrote:
>
>  Paul,
>
> **        **Golly, I have no idea.
> **        **I would think that the Bureau of Indian Affairs might be a
> good source.
> **        **I just took a quick look at the boundary between national
> forest and the Navajo Reservation east of Flagstaff. Though the national
> forest is green under the View tab, no boundary shows up under the Edit
> tab. I have no idea why that is.
> **        **Do you have any suggestions?
>
>
> At 03:57 PM 12/17/2012, you wrote:
>
> How do we handle tribal administrative boundaries?  This is kind of a big
> one for the US, Canada and Australia..
> On Dec 17, 2012 2:51 PM, "Charlotte Wolter" <techlady at techlady.com> wrote:
>  Serge,
>
>         This is a good idea.
>         I have a large file of data from the Acoma tribe, but my efforts
> to negotiate the import wiki have been fruitless. I can't made heads or
> tails of it.
>         Further, I don't know if it's the kind of data we want (though
> they say it is public domain and gave permission in writing). It is road
> center lines for the whole reservation. I remember a remark somewhere in
> this forum that center lines are not the best data. At any rate, I'm not a
> good judge of whether or not it is what we want.
>         In addition, I've already done work on the main roads, though
> often I'm lacking a name or number.
>         And, I don't have tools to exmine a data file to see if it is
> congruent with what OSM can use.
>         So, for many reasons, having a knowledgeable group take this on
> seems to me like a great idea.
>
> Best,
>
> Charlotte
>
> At 06:42 AM 12/17/2012, you wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I know what it's like to be excited about OSM, and I know what it's
> like to be frustrated with OSM, struggling with low data quality, or
> lack of data altogether.
>
> And then you get access to a large dataset, and you know that having
> it in OSM would improve things. It would improve the quality, and
> maybe even get people mapping. At the same time, I think many of you
> have seen the damage that bad imports can do.
>
> The result is that folks like myself and others are frustrated by the
> import process, and folks who have good, useful datasets are frstrated
> by the import process.
>
> So I'm proposing a new committee, run by the US Chapter, to help guide
> imports and large edits.
>
> This will give step by step guidance to those who want to import data,
> and offer the larger community time to review and provide feedback.
>
> When I helped create the US Chapter several years ago, this was one of
> the main reasons I thought it should exist, but I think there's
> finally the amount of data and interest to justify it.
>
> What do folks think?
>
> - Serge
>
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