On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 5:29 PM Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:09 PM Clay Smalley <claysmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Chiming in as another settler. I really wish we had more Natives active >> on OSM contributing their cultural knowledge. What could we be doing >> different in the future to welcome and engage them in our community? >> > > Outreach to tribal GIS offices where they exist couldn't hurt. The > standard map rendering native areas, particularly when most don't (or in > Oklahoma's case, most are *egregiously* incomplete, often only including > the Osage Nation) definitely is a nice start and I'm glad we're to that. > At least in the north american context, having a separate tag for > indigenous lands seems a little strange compared to filing it under the > administrative boundary, admin_level system, but I can live with it. > It depends on the jurisdiction. The non-Federal Schaghticoke reservation in Connecticut is simply part of Kent Township; there's a tribal government of sorts but it's not recognized by the BIA, and so there isn't really an admin_level that would fit. On the other hand, all of the Indian Reservations in New York are not part of either Towns or Cities, and so would slot in nicely at admin_level=7. The sole inconsistency that designation would introduce is that the city of Salamanca is entirely within the Allegany reservation. (Salamanca, and several smaller communities, have significant non-Haudenosaunee populations and stand on reservation land that is leased from the Seneca Nation.) -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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