[OSM-talk] Native American/First Nation, etc. Reservation Boundaries

[Clifford Snow]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

> I can’t speak for the US, but tagging of them in BC was set back by people
> pushing the view that they should be tagged as provinces. There were also
> issues that someone imported a bunch without geometry or tag cleanup.
>

In the US, Federally recognized tribes seem to be somewhere equal to state
or higher, thus admin level 3 would seem more appropriate. But then there
are cases where the the tribe occupies a small city.  Question, how does
the admin level impact the rendering?

>
> ****
>
> The fact that they generally cross admin_level=* boundary=administrative
> boundaries and those boundaries cross them is a pretty strong indication
> that they’re orthogonal to admin_level boundary.
>

I agree.

AFAIK, reservations are pretty much unique to Canada, the US and Australia.
> Oddly enough, I’ve been to all of those countries.
>
Lived in two, but not Australia. What about New Zealand for example the
Maori? Because of treaties, how we tag the boundaries, may be universal.

I'm planning to get in touch with a friend from a tribe in Alaska. I'm
hoping that he might have good contacts to help me understand this better.
I think he is out of the country on a holiday right now.


-- 
Clifford

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