> I downloaded a quad (geotiff) for part of the area in question and pulled it > into QGIS. It generally agrees with the county land ownership information, > with the exception that some state lands are shown on the quad as owned by > the Federal Government. Perhaps this is an error in one of the datasets.
As far as I understand (and tag), the owned lands should be tagged as landuse (generally, landuse=forest, access=yes, operator=xxx National Forest), but the administrative boundary is something different from that. From what I see in parts of the SE (looking specifically at Chattahoochee-Oconee, Nantahala, etc area), the administrative boundary multipolygon is around *only* USFS owned lands. I would consider this tagging style incorrect, and largely the exception relative to the rest of the US. >The Fee Owned is a a subset of the Congressionally Mandated boundaries as >someone else explained. My unofficial suggestion is if you want to model >recreation, it would be better to show the Fee Owned boundaries so people >don't end up on private lands. The US Topo uses proclaimed at this time. Proclaimed boundaries are the administrative boundaries, and should be tagged with "boundary" tags as they are in most of the US. Actual owned land (fee owned) is a matter of landuse and should be tagged using landuse tags. Unfortunately, this doesn't necessarily show distinctly on the main OSM slippy map. However, this is a generic map that is not *necessarily* designed to be useful for any one specific thing, and trying to show different ownership of land can get messy very fast. The data in the OSM database should reflect the distinction between designated administrative boundaries and actual managed forest land, regardless of whether this shows nicely on the slippy map. If the goal is to see clearly what land is actually owned by the USFS, then it is likely better to either use the USFS topo maps, or develop your own map style that shows the difference! _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
