The voting period for boundary=aboriginal_lands has now closed, and there were 45 votes in favor and 7 against, so the tag has now been approved.
I created the new wiki page for the tag here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Daboriginal_lands The map rendering still needs a bit of discussion about colors (to avoid color conflict with the same brown used by zoos and theme parks) but this is not the place for that conversation. The github issue remains open for debate here: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3520 So what's next? It now appears that "boundary=aboriginal_lands" is synonymous with "boundary=protected_area" + "protect_class=24", and both tagging styles have roughly similar usage in the database. I'm curious to see over time whether mappers start to use "boundary=aboriginal_lands" more frequently, or if people keep using both. Perhaps at some point in the future we can have a discussion about whether to deprecate the "boundary=protected_area" + "protect_class=24" approach, or if we should just keep supporting both methods in simultaneously. But I'm not in a hurry to start that discussion right now. Thanks to everyone who took part in this discussion and who voted on the proposal! Alan > On Nov 24, 2018, at 4:38 PM, Alan McConchie <alan.mcconc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The tag boundary=aboriginal_lands has been discussed on-and-off for a long > time in OSM. I'd like to raise the topic one last time and hopefully come to > some consensus about it. > > The tag proposal on the wiki dates from 2008, but the original proposal was > from the user Sam Vekemans (username acrosscanadatrails) who is no longer > participating in OpenStreetMap, as far as I can tell. He never moved the > proposal to a vote, so the page has remained in the proposal state all this > time. > > Here's the proposal: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:boundary%3Daboriginal_lands > > (I've tried to updated the wiki page somewhat, but leaving the discussion > intact) > > In the following years, some people have started using that proposed tag, > mostly in Canada and somewhat in the United States. > > Here's the overpass query for boundary=aboriginal_lands: > http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/DV4 > > There has also been extensive discussion over the years on the > boundary=aboriginal_lands page, and it seems like the consensus is that the > tag is necessary and better than any alternatives. But it was never voted on > as a proposal. > > In the intervening years, tagging native reservations with > boundary=protected_area + protect_class=24 has also gained popularity. This > tag combination seems to be popular in South America, Australia, and also in > parts of the United States. I can't find any evidence for why people chose > this tag combination instead of boundary=aboriginal_lands. It appears that > the tags are pretty much interchangeable. Most of the features in Brazil > however are tagged incorrectly for the renderer, mixing > leisure=nature_reserve with protect_class=24, so that the areas show up on > the default renderer with the nature reserve green style. > > Here's the overpass query for protect_class=24: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/DV5 > > Wiki page for boundary=protected_area: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area > > In 2014, there were three messages on the tagging mailing list, from Paul > Johnson and Clifford Snow. > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-November/020160.html > But at that time, we didn't come any answers. > > There seems to be no argument about whether or not aboriginal areas are > important features that should be mapped. The only question is how to tag > them. > > So the question is: > > Should we use the single tag boundary=aboriginal_lands for these areas? Or > should we deprecate that tag (in other words, reject the proposal) and > instead use boundary=protected_area + protect_class=24? > > > I'd like to officially open the voting period now, so we can once and for all > come to a conclusion on this 10-year-long discussion. Please review the > discussion on the wiki page and cast your vote at the bottom: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:boundary%3Daboriginal_lands > > > Alan > > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
