[Talk-us] Preliminary Import/Organized Mapping Effort Idea

[Mike Thompson]

Village Earth's Native Land Advocacy Project[1], David Bartecchi[2], Paul
Johnson[3], and I[4] are considering an organized effort to improve the
boundaries of Native American Reservations in the US.  We have studied the
import guidelines on the wiki and will follow those, however, we first
wanted to see:

1) If there was any fundamental objection to this idea before even the
details are spelled out

2) If anyone is already working on this issue.

3) If anyone would like to join us.


We are thinking that our general approach will be:

1) Use data from this source:
https://biamaps.doi.gov/dataDownload/index.html    It has a compatible
license, but will verify and document as part of this process.

2) Somehow allow mappers to "check out" a particular reservation's
boundary.  Exact mechanism is TBD.

3) A human mapper will examine each boundary individually

4) Where OSM does not have a corresponding reservation boundary, the mapper
will import the boundary into OSM (not sure of the exact mechanics at this
time).  If the boundary needs to participate in a boundary relation, that
will be handled here. Tag mapping is TBD at this point.   Any conflicts
with existing OSM features will be addressed in this step.

5) Where OSM has a boundary and it does not match the above source, and it
has not been edited by a human mapper, proceed as in 4 above, except only
replace geometry and preserve the history of the existing OSM features.

6) Where OSM has a boundary and it does not match our source, but it has
been edited by a human mapper, use additional sources, including tribal
sources, and county sources, to determine the true boundary and make
necessary edits in OSM.  Deference will be given to the edits made by local
mappers.

To be determined:
We are aware of some cases where different government bodies (e.g. Federal
Government vs. a state government) dispute the extent of a reservation.

Long term we would like to involve Native Americans, particularly youth
living on reservations, in adding additional details to OSM about
reservations, such as street names, amenities, etc., but we don't envision
this as part of this import/organized effort process.

We look forward to your initial feedback on this preliminary concept.

Mike


[1] Village Earth is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has worked in
Indian Country for over 20 years and works closely with the Indian Land
Tenure Foundation
[2] David works for Village Earth
[3] Most people on this list are probably familiar with Paul, a long time
contributor to OSM
[4] My OSM user name is tekim, I have been mapping in OSM since 2009.
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