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

[Jeff Meyer]

Isn't that true of all data in the database?

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, January 7, 2013, Ian Dees wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Nathan Mixter <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.
>>
>
> I disagree. If we can't improve it then the only thing it can do is sit in
> the database and become wrong.
>
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