[Talk-us] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

[Paul Johnson]

On Monday, January 7, 2013, Ian Dees wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Nathan Mixter <nmixter at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'nmixter at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> It would be awesome to include the land ownership data from BLM
>> especially if we could do it for the whole US. Unfortunately that is
>> probably not something that people would want to add because of the
>> conflicts with other data. I wonder if we could include it on a limited
>> basis or only include certain features.
>
>
> We just had this conversation a couple threads ago. This sort of land
> ownership border doesn't really belong in OSM because we can't improve it.
> It's already in OSM because some people imported the BLM data so they could
> see national park boundaries.
>

Just because we can't improve it doesn't mean it can't improve the map.
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