[OSM-talk] Native American/First Nation, etc. Reservation Boundaries
Paul Norman
penorman at mac.com
Sun Apr 21 06:50:27 UTC 2013
Are there any reservations on or near the I-5/I-405 between Canada and
Bellevue? I can divert on my way to Issaquah to attempt to ground truth some
of this.
From: Clifford Snow [mailto:clifford at snowandsnow.us]
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 10:55 PM
To: Paul Norman
Cc: Talk Openstreetmap; Paul Johnson
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Native American/First Nation, etc. Reservation
Boundaries
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
> > I cant 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?
That's definitely the wrong question to be asking - whatever is appropriate,
it almost certainly isn't going to be rendered by osm.org mapnik as-is.
> > The fact that they generally cross admin_level=* boundary=administrative
> > boundaries and those boundaries cross them is a pretty strong indication
> > that theyre orthogonal to admin_level boundary.
> I agree.
If they're orthogonal, then why are we trying to shoehorn them into
admin_level=* boundary=administrative?
There is a strong assumption that admin_level=N areas are geometrically
admin_level=M areas, where N>M. Or alternately stated, cities are in states.
While there are some exceptions to this, this proposal would break that in
almost every case.
> > AFAIK, reservations are pretty much unique to Canada, the US and
Australia.
> > Oddly enough, Ive 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.
Ah yes, I was wondering about NZ. In any case, reservations definitely are
not world-wide.
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