[Talk-us] National Forests and Private Ownership

[Mike Thompson]

Thanks for the reply Kevin!

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 2:06 PM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> At present, I don't specifically map the inholdings - eventually they
> probably ought to have mapping for some combination of landuse and
> landcover. Instead, I simply have them as inner ways in the
> multipolygon that represents the forest (or wilderness area, or park,
> or whatever).
>
Not representing them as part of the National Forest seems to be less than
ideal.  They are part of the National Forest, and the land owners may be
subject to "additional federal and agency-specific regulations..."[1]  If
you went to the agency who manages the National Forest (US Department of
Agriculture, National Forest Service) and asked them for the boundary of
the land they manage, they would give you the larger area that includes
both government and privately owned land (it appears that the current
boundaries in OSM came from the Forest Service). Regarding "inner ways",
these holdings are sometimes on the edge of the property owned by the US
Government, in which case the outer way would have to be modified.

Mike

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inholding
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