I finished up with Seney NWR, putting it on the right side of the Creighton Truck Road and the state forest on the other. Pictured Rocks- I pulled the ownership tracts from the NPS open data portal, loaded into QGIS, extracted those tracts with “Status”=”FED”, dissolved those and ended up with only a handful of ways. Those went into OSM, subarea within the main relation, tagged boundary=protected_area, ownership=national. The designated National lakeshore boundary I kept but with boundary=national_park (sure why not), similar to what was done with the administrative boundary of the Manistee National Forest (which is still a throwing JOSM validator error for missing admin_level). That’s the park boundary, but not the protected area boundary since the NPS only has jurisdiction over the federal land holdings. Just like the USFS, drop an entrance sign along the road to indicate you are entering the designated lakeshore/forest, but not the ownership/protected area just yet necessarily. Anyhow, mapping the actual ownership separately enabled me to match up the Shingleton unit state forest holdings with the federal ownership, resolving the overlap issue. The Shingleton unit has been getting a total rework too that has taken some careful checking since lots of phony parcels that were previously loaded that are incorrect, not reflecting the current state ownership.

As far as the private timber lands with NPS conservation easements, that may take a little head-scratching to resolve if worth mapping or not. Already someone created a precedent of inputting a few DNR-enrolled private commercial forest lands into OSM with tags landuse=forest, description “Commercial Forest land”. Now if we did the same state-wide, that would sure add a lot of stuff, especially in the UP. Maybe after the state & national forests are resolved.

Cadillac unit is all re-imported: relation/14031776; working on Traverse City unit now: relation/14043348. Getting there slowly.