On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Paul Johnson wrote: > We need to come up with a better way to map and tag autonomous regions, > particularly in North America. The talk page for the boundary= suggests > that an administrative boundary is not the right tag; and I couldn't > disagree more. > > As a Cherokee, I find boundary=indian_reserve and boundary=native_nation > to be intrinsically racist. While admin_level=1 is probably not right, I > believe First Nations lines are administrative boundaries, the > admin_level=* of which must reflect the degree of sovereignty agreed upon > by treaty between the nation in question and the United States (or other > potentially subjugating force). For example, the Cherokee Nation would be > admin_level=2, whereas The Confederated Tribes of Grande Rhonde would be > somewhere closer to the 3-5 range, and even smaller nations that got more > heavily screwed over by the United States might fall in the 6-8 range. > Yes, I realize this means Canada and the US and their member provinces, > states, ridings and counties, would get turned into swiss cheese by most > renderers, but are we looking for a map that looks like every other map, > or a map that is accurate and objectively reflects the ground and legal > truth? >
Paul, I can't comment on this at all, as I have no idea of how this works. However, I think that you need to put more detail into the proposal and put it up on the wiki for any other First Nation persons to comment on. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
