I'm sure you all saw my posts to the Talk mailing list on this subject,
but I'm working my way through the "Import Guidelines" wiki page, which
requests a post to this list:
The "Designated Wilderness Areas" in the USA are of great interest to
people like me, who like to explore the less populate
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Erik G. Burrows wrote:
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> These areas are made publicly available through several US government
> agencies, including the US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management,
> National Park Service, etc. The "National Atlas" site makes all of the
> Wilderness Areas avai
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Erik G. Burrows wrote:
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> (There is also a ton of other great information available for download at
> this site.)
>
>
Most of this data has very very low resolution (1:1M) and should probably
not be imported.
>
> Many of these areas are already imported into the
(Replying to list with my response to Ian)
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>> Lastly, the import of boundaries into OSM is pretty dubious. Once we
>> import
>> any sort of data it instantly starts to decay. Boundaries and borders
>> are
>> especially bad because OSM is not (and should not) be the official
>> record
>> for the
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Erik G. Burrows wrote:
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> >
> > The boundaries exist though, and affect travel on the ground. For
> > instance, many roads on the map, imported from the TIGER data seem to
> pass
> > right through a designated wilderness area. It is only when you get there
> > th
