On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 3:18 AM Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The OpenStreetMap community has long agreed that mapping cadastral parcels > (land ownership) is not in scope. Protect area and National Park boundaries > were supposed to be less difficult to confirm and more valid. > > But if what we are going to start mapping in the USA is simply the federal > ownership of land, that's just pure cadastre data. We might as well try to > map all the private land parcels and keep that information accurate - but > both tasks are too difficult, and the data is better provided by local > governments directly. > We don't map cadastre at least partly out of respect for personal privacy - something that is not at issue with government-owned land. A larger point, however, is that we _do_ map land use; we _do_ map protection status, and we _do_ map constraints on public access. In this particular case, as with many cases of government-owned land, the land use, the protection status, and the public access all follow the property lines. That is what is (implicitly) being mapped; mapping the property line is the way that it is achieved. -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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