Re: [Talk-us] Native American Reservations

2009-09-01 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
states are admin_level 4 but we shouldn't use the same level as it is still different. As it is below federal level but not below state level I think 3 is the best choice as Tyler suggested already. for the very special case Richard had mentioned a special tag can be applied or admin_level=1

Re: [Talk-us] Native American Reservations

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 14:10 -0700, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > the wiki has them as proposal on boundary=adminstrative, admin level > 1, but this is definitely wrong. they should be either level 3 - 5. as > far as I know they have a pretty special legal status and level 3 > seems to be a good cho

[Talk-us] Native American Reservations

2009-09-01 Thread Hilton Long
Boundaries for US aboriginal reservations are available from the 2008 Tiger Shapefile Website. http://www2.census.gov/cgi-bin/shapefiles/national-files <>___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/ta

Re: [Talk-us] Native American Reservations

2009-08-31 Thread Tyler
> > haven't searched for Native American reservations data but there should be > something available. If someone knows where to get it and what tags to use > it can be done quickly Apo, http://nationalatlas.gov/mld/indlanp.html it's not really the most accurate data (as with most of the national

Re: [Talk-us] Native American Reservations

2009-08-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > the wiki has them as proposal on boundary=adminstrative,  admin level 1, but > this is definitely wrong. they should be either level 3 - 5. as far as I > know they have a pretty special legal status and level 3 seems to be a good > choic

Re: [Talk-us] Native American Reservations

2009-08-31 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
the wiki has them as proposal on boundary=adminstrative, admin level 1, but this is definitely wrong. they should be either level 3 - 5. as far as I know they have a pretty special legal status and level 3 seems to be a good choice.an adminsitrative boundary should always render. For more details

Re: [Talk-us] Native American Reservations

2009-08-31 Thread Tyler
Sarah, I've done some in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington http://osm.org/go/WJAdYCYM-- I'm currently using boundary=native_nation, there aren't good rendering rules for it, and I'm not convinced that's how it should be (maybe boundary=administrative, admin=3 ?, border_type=native_nation ?) My th

[Talk-us] Native American Reservations

2009-08-31 Thread Sarah Manley
Hello All, Has anyone done any work (or know of areas/examples), of mapping on Native American reservations? I know some people who work with Native American groups, and are intersted in OSM. I haven't seen much in the wiki, or on the map. I have seen some ares defined by nodes imported with the G