The ways representing the Manistee and Cadillac ranger districts now are split out into separate relations. For the Manistee National Forest super-relation, I added a way to represent the administrative Forest boundary, snapped to the adjacent outer edges of the ownership ways. This gives some geometry for the relation when you search for and pull it up. To avoid confusion over actual ownership/extent of protected_area / leisure=nature_preserve, I scrubbed those from the Manistee relation and they are only on the district subarea relations. Manistee is tagged boundary=administrative, the subareas tagged boundary=protected_area. We will see how the tagging savants respond to this strategy. I did add an admin_level=6, the equivalent of the county level, to help show the Manistee admin boundary at a wide zoom level. Maybe it will work. I thought about adding a government=forestry tag as well to show that it’s not a civil\municipal admin boundary, but didn’t add it:

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Splitting Cadillac and Manistee resulted in some simpler geometry. Previously the ownership extent protruded out into Hodenpyl dam pond, so I brought that back to the shoreline (snapped to edge of natural=water). Still need to add an admin_centre node for the Cad-Man office in Manistee and the Forest HQ in Cadillac.

In other news I added in the 5000-acre Dunbar experimental forest in the eastern UP, it’s a MSU property, I tagged it with the university as the operator and leisure=nature_reserve. I saw a Notre Dame school Forest somewhere in the W UP already in OSM and I know UofM and MTU have school forests too. And there are county forests too- Marquette has a big one near the old Air Force base. I Still need to get back in and finish up the Mackinac State Forest, Lake Superior State Forest, start on the Pere Marquette. And sometime or another see what’s wrong with the Ottawa NF. Gotta fill in the northern lower and UP!

Andy