Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Preliminary Import/Organized Mapping Effort Idea

I asked the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, near Sequim, WA for updated boundaries. The state boundaries did not match what was on the tribes website. They provided me with an update - the same one they just sent the Census Bureau. With the 2020 census my guess is that TIGER might have some good

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Preliminary Import/Organized Mapping Effort Idea

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 7:18 PM Clifford Snow wrote: > I've reached out to a couple of the nearby reservations, one with a small > parcel of off reservation land trust, the other with only a small > reservation but a very large off reservation land trust. I don't expect > answers until possibly

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Preliminary Import/Organized Mapping Effort Idea

(Conversational quoting, please) On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 6:42 PM David Bartecchi wrote: > All of these concerns must be weighed against the fact that the current > absence of Native lands in OSM only contributes to the erasure Native > Americans and their lands from the American collective

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Preliminary Import/Organized Mapping Effort Idea

I've reached out to a couple of the nearby reservations, one with a small parcel of off reservation land trust, the other with only a small reservation but a very large off reservation land trust. I don't expect answers until possibly after the new year. Unlike Oklahoma, Washington reservations

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Preliminary Import/Organized Mapping Effort Idea

Content warning: Aboriginal abuse mention On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 2:08 PM Clifford Snow wrote: > I do have Washington State tribal lands available [1] as a background > layer for JOSM. There is also a vector tile layer [2] of the same > background available for iD users. > > The data contains

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Preliminary Import/Organized Mapping Effort Idea

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 3:03 PM Mike Thompson wrote: > > I've avoided BIA because their data doesn't seem accurate > We have gotten some additional feedback off list also suggesting that the > BIA data may not be as accurate as some other sources. Perhaps we should > create a wiki page listing

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Preliminary Import/Organized Mapping Effort Idea

Clifford, Thanks for your feedback. > I've avoided BIA because their data doesn't seem accurate We have gotten some additional feedback off list also suggesting that the BIA data may not be as accurate as some other sources. Perhaps we should create a wiki page listing every reservation, its

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Preliminary Import/Organized Mapping Effort Idea

Mike, Thanks to you, David and Paul for taking the initiative to mapping Natiive American Reservations. On and off for the last few years I've been attempting to reservations mapped in Washington State. My first choice for boundary information has always been from the reservation then the state.