Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

2019-01-05 Thread Martijn van Exel
Brad — I make use of BLM / NPS / NF boundary data a lot too. I use Gaia GPS for this, which overlays this data nicely with what’s in OSM[1]. There are lots of other outdoor apps that do the same. I prefer this data live outside of OSM as well for similar reasons as Ian stated. Knowing whether

Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 10:42 PM Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > This data is no less verifiable than national forest boundaries and > federal wilderness boundaries; these generally need to be checked against > official sources, just as BLM boundaries will. > > Municipal boundaries are perhaps even

Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

2019-01-05 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
This data is no less verifiable than national forest boundaries and federal wilderness boundaries; these generally need to be checked against official sources, just as BLM boundaries will. Municipal boundaries are perhaps even harder to verify than boundaries of BLM land and National Forests in

Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

2019-01-05 Thread brad
Ian, I want to import this data because I think its important for a complete map.   We have national forest, wilderness  and national park boundaries in OSM!   This is no different.   If you look at many maps they show all of them. I'd like it to show up on any map that I use.   I'm working

Re: [Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Dees
Hi Brad, thanks for proposing this import and posting it here. I would strongly prefer that we not import boundaries like this into OSM. Boundaries of all sorts are almost impossible to verify with OSM's "on the ground" rule, but BLM boundaries in particular are such an edge case (they have no

[Talk-us] US Bureau of Land Management Boundaries

2019-01-05 Thread brad
I'd like to import BLM (US Bureau of Land Management) boundaries into OSM.    This is not an automated import as you can see from my workflow. Workflow: Download shape file from PADUS (1 state at a time): https://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/data/download/ Load into Qgis and filter for BLM