[Talk-us] National Parks forests areas

2009-02-19 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi all,The talk-us list brought up a good point, that we (for the GeoBase/CanVec) import. ... BTW, EVERYTHING that is available on the geogratis.ca site which is under the same license is up for grabs. We haven't yet listest EVERYTHING which COULD be imported. ... Anyway, in Canada parks/forests/p

[Talk-us] National Park Boundaries

2009-02-19 Thread Nathan Mixter
National parks and national forests are clearly are two different things. That is something that Google and others do not recognize. They just do one green for everything and they don't have BLM or open space land. I know in the past open space land has been a posilbility as being included in OSM

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest Boundaries

2009-02-19 Thread Matthias Julius
Karl Newman writes: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Theodore Book wrote: > >> I have put the various proposals on the wiki at: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Forest_Service_Data >> >> It seems like the landuse=forest tag has a fair amount of consensus, but >> that we are not yet sur

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest Boundaries

2009-02-19 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Karl Newman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Theodore Book wrote: >> >> I have put the various proposals on the wiki at: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Forest_Service_Data >> >> It seems like the landuse=forest tag has a fair amount of consensu

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest Boundaries

2009-02-19 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Theodore Book wrote: > I have put the various proposals on the wiki at: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Forest_Service_Data > > It seems like the landuse=forest tag has a fair amount of consensus, but > that we are not yet sure how to tag the fact that it

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest Boundaries

2009-02-19 Thread Theodore Book
I have put the various proposals on the wiki at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Forest_Service_Data It seems like the landuse=forest tag has a fair amount of consensus, but that we are not yet sure how to tag the fact that it is a national forest, and not just any forest. Adam Schreiber

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest Boundaries

2009-02-19 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:56 AM, James Fee wrote: > The problem is that they aren't the same. National Forests are Department > of Agriculture and National Parks are Department of Interior. There is > probably a smart way to tag them, but there definitely should be separation > between National

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest Boundaries

2009-02-19 Thread James Fee
The problem is that they aren't the same. National Forests are Department of Agriculture and National Parks are Department of Interior. There is probably a smart way to tag them, but there definitely should be separation between National Parks and everything else. -- James Fee http://www.spatial

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest Boundaries

2009-02-19 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:34 AM, James Fee wrote: > I totally agree. National Forests are administered by the Agriculture > Department (not the park service) and are managed lands for different uses > (timber, livestock, wildlife) as well as recreation. They are probably > closer (feel free to

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest Boundaries

2009-02-19 Thread James Fee
I totally agree. National Forests are administered by the Agriculture Department (not the park service) and are managed lands for different uses (timber, livestock, wildlife) as well as recreation. They are probably closer (feel free to flame me on this) to BLM lands than National Parks. Nationa

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest Boundaries

2009-02-19 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Nicholas Vetrovec wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Theodore Book wrote: > >> Despite my taking a "local" approach, I do think it would be great if we > >> could do a coordinated national upload of the NHD data, however. > > >I think it would definitely he

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest Boundaries

2009-02-19 Thread Nicholas Vetrovec
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Theodore Book wrote: >> Despite my taking a "local" approach, I do think it would be great if we >> could do a coordinated national upload of the NHD data, however. >I think it would definitely help make the US OpenStreetMap look more >professional to get as much