[Talk-us] Cooper Country State Forest in Keweenaw County, MI

[Kerry Irons]

It's Copper Country, not Cooper Country.

Kerry Irons

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 1:55 PM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 1:47 PM Joseph Eisenberg <
> joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My goodness, look at that monstrosity:
>>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1976405#map=8/46.459/-87.627
>>
>> How can we claim that all of these patches of state-owned land constitute
>> a single OpenStreetMap feature?
>>
>
> Because they share a name, share a management plan, are managed as a
> whole, are signed alike, enjoy the same protection status, and are
> popularly thought of as a unit.
>
> The US has some untidy and diffuse features. Some of those untidy and
> diffuse features are important to those who live around them, earn their
> livings by them, or recreate in them. Don't demand that we refrain from
> mapping them because they fail to conform with your mental model of the
> world as it ought to be. It comes across as saying, "My model is fine, fix
> your country!" I can't fix it, in any reasonable timeframe at least. I'm
> constrained to mapping the country I have.
>
> --
> 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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