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

[Paul Johnson]

(Conversational quoting, please)

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 6:42 PM David Bartecchi <dbartecchi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> All of these concerns must be weighed against the fact that the current
> absence of Native lands in OSM only contributes to the erasure Native
> Americans and their lands from the American collective conscience.
>

Agreed.

I did think ahead on this enough to use the protected lands key when
tagging the areas I have mapped so far, as this is probably the most
neutral method available right now that doesn't break the renderers.  Not
good enough for government work (we'd need a lot more research into treaty
status and way more admin values to make those value judgements as
administrative areas), but good enough to at least be a starting point for
well established areas.

My more immediate concern than "not erasing people" is "not assigning areas
to people in ways that are ambiguous, irrelevant or potentially perceived
as hostile".  I'm not the person to take the lead on navigating that one.
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