> However, I'm not exactly sure how the outer polygons found in NFs differ from > either the "Congressional" boundary or the one Bradley says he would tag > "boundary=administrative" (and I don't think we should tag it that, > especially while excluding a specific value for admin_level), but I'm willing > to listen to more discussion about what this "different from Congressional" > boundary is and how the two differ. Apologies if that isn't clear, I'm doing > my best, but I remain unclear on some concepts here.
NF congressionally designated boundary, minus private inholdings (more specifically, non-USFS-owned land), gives you the boundary of land that is actually managed and protected by the USFS. This boundary should be tagged with 'protect_class=6'. USFS owned land is always a subset of this congressional boundary (I suspect it is, in all cases in the US, a proper subset). Subtracting these private inholdings is generally going to change the shape of the 'outer' way such that it no longer is the same as the "designated" boundary. > My slight disagreement with Bradley is as above: I don't think we should put > a "naked" (missing admin_level) boundary=administrative tag on these, it > simply feels wrong to do that. (I READ the point that these are > "Congressionally designated" and that SEEMS administrative...but, hm...). I wasn't clear in what I meant by suggesting 'boundary=administrative' tagging here - I don't think we should tag "declared" boundaries 'boundary=administrative' with no 'admin_level'. This is simply the closest widely-used tag that comes close to representing what this "declared" boundary actually means. This is also why I suggest we think about not including it at all in OSM; should we also start adding boundaries for interstate USFS administrative regions (an 'admin_level', for lack of a better term, more general than a NF boundary), as well as ranger districts within each national forest? The real, on-the-ground objects of importance here are the plots of land that are actually owned and operated by the USFS, not an administrative boundary that declares where each national forest *may* legally be authorized to own and manage land, and that is not surveyable on the ground. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
