[Talk-us] Michigan Forest Land

[Marcus W. Davenport]

Hello!
I'm a decently experienced mapper from the Lansing and Hillsdale, MI areas
and noticed the same issues with state owned land in OSM.  I've been using
State of Michigan data to draw and maintain the two State Game Area's that
I hike regularly: the Portland State Game Area (on the Grand River just
south of Portland) and the Lost Nations State Game Area (just south of
Pittsford; sometimes known as "Pittsford State Game Area").
One issue I've found with the State Forest Compartments shapefile that was
originally linked is that JOSM does not seem to import this file with the
metadata required to make any addition without local knowledge. Other State
of Michigan shapefiles will open names and superfluous data as keys and
values, but his shapefile appears to be outlines only.
Also, it's my understanding that SGA's and forests would be either
"protect_class" = 4 or 5 (depending on whether the enclosed species or
landscape are of greater importance).  That is solely my interpretation
based on reading
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area.

Kind regards,
davenport651
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