1

Is anyone working on importing BLM boundaries? Either nationally or locally? In my area there don’t seem to be any BLM boundaries, but there are forest service boundaries.

2

How to tag BLM boundaries?

Based on my reading of the osm guidelines, this is what I’ve come up with
type = boundary
boundary= protected_area
operator = BLM
ownership = national
name = * Field Office [example Moab Field Office]

The only BLM boundaries that I’ve found are in Montana (6 yrs ago), tagged with
boundary= protected_area
name= BLM
operator= US Bureau of Land Management
ownership = national
protect_class = 27
sometimes type=multipolygon

and I’ve found some USFS boundaries with only these tags:
“attribution”=“US Forest Service”
“boundary”=“protected_area”
“operator”=“United States Forest Service”

My rationale for something a little different than the montana tags are:
The field office is in the shapefile attributes and it is valuable info so I think we should keep it. The most relevant tag seems to be name.
For the operator, US is redundant since it’s national, and BLM is a well known acronym.
protect_class is cryptic, and doesn’t seem important

What do you think?

3

protect_class is cryptic, but so far rendering is contingent on it.

The scheme you propose looks reasonable, and it anyway is not so hard to make some adjustments later.