On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote:

> On Monday, January 7, 2013, Ian Dees wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Nathan Mixter <nmix...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It would be awesome to include the land ownership data from BLM
>>> especially if we could do it for the whole US. Unfortunately that is
>>> probably not something that people would want to add because of the
>>> conflicts with other data. I wonder if we could include it on a limited
>>> basis or only include certain features.
>>
>>
>> We just had this conversation a couple threads ago. This sort of land
>> ownership border doesn't really belong in OSM because we can't improve it.
>> It's already in OSM because some people imported the BLM data so they could
>> see national park boundaries.
>>
>
> Just because we can't improve it doesn't mean it can't improve the map.
>

I disagree. If we can't improve it then the only thing it can do is sit in
the database and become wrong.
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