Bradley, I'm not sure that this is typically how federal lands are conceptualized, at least on the east coast. It is usually as Mike suggests a 1:1 correspondence with the actual Fee Simple boundary and federal management. A lot of times when maps are drawn or gis data is developed scale is a consideration and just conveying where a National Forest is is more important than showing a patchwork of in-holdings (which by the way are constantly changing with land swaps and selling or buying parcels). This may be where the idea of an administrative boundary or area comes from? In any case a really excellent source for all protected lands is the USGS PAD-US dataset. https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/science-analytics-and-synthesis/gap/science/protected-areas
Disclaimer: I am the Georgia data steward. So Mike, I would say if you have the information and data that there's a private in-holding, I would exclude it from the National Forest (or whatever) polygon and maybe map the landcover (forest, etc) if you are so inclined. Kevin On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 3:12 PM Bradley White <theangrytom...@gmail.com> wrote: > No, this is incorrect. USFS administrative boundaries and USFS managed > land are not the same thing, though the latter is always inside the > former. The boundaries currently in OSM are administrative boundaries, > and are tagged correctly as such. It is perfectly fine to have private > land within a USFS administrative boundary, in the same way it would > be okay to have private land within any other government-defined > jurisdictional boundary. > > > The consensus of those who replied seem to be to exclude these privately > held lands from the National Forest boundaries. Is that correct? Does > anyone object to that approach? If not, I will proceed in that manner as > well. > > > > Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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