NACIS 2019: Cartography and Community in OpenStreetMap: Getting Native Reservations on the Map

Slides for my NACIS 2019 talk.

Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTJU3xaYQxE

Full transcript is here: https://mappingmashups.medium.com/here-is-a-transcription-of-my-presentation-to-the-north-american-cartographic-information-society-c422255cc9ed

More context here: https://hi.stamen.com/its-about-time-openstreetmap-showed-native-lands-on-the-map-cfc56e92b2ac

Transcript

1. Cartography and Community in OpenStreetMap: Getting Native Reservations on the Map Alan McConchie, Stamen Design #NACIS2019 October 18, 2019 Tacoma, Washington @mappingmashups slides: sta.mn / jzj
2. The Salish Sea: the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people
3. OpenStreetMap an open-source, collaborative map of the world
4. Bellingham, Whatcom County traditional territory of the Lummi (Xwlemi, Lhaq'temish) and Nooksack (Noxwsʼáʔaq)
5. OpenStreetMap in 2018. Lummi Indian Reservation should be here...
6. osm.org/relation/1606799
7. What's going on? Why is this feature in OpenStreetMap but not on OpenStreetMap?
8. this talk is not about mapping native land just "Indian Reservations" "The United States" by Bill Rankin radicalcartography.net/index.html?reservations or "Native Reserves" or "First Nation Reserves" or "Indigenous Territory" or "Aboriginal Lands" or ...
9. Tag usage in OpenStreetMap as of late 2018 boundary=protected_area + protect_class=24 boundary=aboriginal_lands overpass-turbo.eu/s/DV5 overpass-turbo.eu/s/DV4
10. wiki.osm.org/wiki/Proposed_features/ Tag:boundary=aboriginal_lands
11. wiki.osm.org/wiki/Proposed_features/ Tag:boundary=aboriginal_lands wiki.osm.org/wiki/Proposed_features/ Tag:boundary=aboriginal_lands
12. lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2018-November/041156.html
13. github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3520#issuecomment-443946980
14. wiki.osm.org/wiki/Tag:boundary=aboriginal_lands
15. Treaty of Medicine Creek December 26, 1854 Treaty of Point Elliott January 22, 1855 Medicine Creek Point Elliott Seattle Tacoma
16. Treaty of Medicine Creek December 26, 1854 Treaty of Point Elliott January 22, 1855 en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Medicine_Creek en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Point_Elliott
17. news flash: The treaties have obligations on the settlers too and: The treaties are still relevant en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Medicine_Creek en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Point_Elliott
18. "How Lummi Nation's Treaty Stand Beat Big Coal" Their long battle bet big on treaty promises to defend their waters—and their culture. Ralph Schwartz, Sightline Institute May 11, 2016 sightline.org/2016/05/11/how-lummi-nations-treaty-stand-beat-big-coal/
19. People are already adding reservations to OSM The tag has been officially accepted by the community Now we can finally get them on the map ☑ ☑ ☑
20. Washington Road & Recreation Atlas, 1:1400000 scale (Benchmark Maps, 2007) Washington Road & Recreation Atlas, larger scale (Benchmark Maps, 2007) photos by Paul Norman
21. Zoom 9 Semi-transparent fill Labeled centroid Zoom 13 No fill Labeled outlines osm.org/relation/6750258
22. github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto open source cartography: collaboration in a GitHub code repository
23. github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/DOCKER.md Render your own OpenStreetMap extract with Docker:
24. github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/3521 open source cartography: map stying with CartoCSS
25. github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/3521 open source cartography: filing a "pull request" in the GitHub repository
26. github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/3582 But zoos and theme parks already used a brown style!
27. github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/3582 But zoos and theme parks already used a brown style! Solved by changing these to purple.
32. osm.org/relation/3854097
33. washingtonlandscape.blogspot.com/2016/02/puyallup-reservation-map.html "The Puyallup Reservation is large enough to shade, but is typically left off maps." – Dan McShane
34. osm.org/relation/7414790
35. osm.org/relation/7414790 "How the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Held On in Palm Springs" The one-mile square area, known as Section 14, competes for sovereignty with the wealthy in Southern California Smithsonian Magazine, April 5, 2019
36. Oklahoma "Is Half of Oklahoma an Indian Reservation? The Supreme Court Sifts the Merits" The New York Times, Nov. 27, 2018 https://nyti.ms/2DMw8Tj
37. What next? • How do we map native trust lands and other boundaries? • Find out if the reservations around you are mapped. • Learn about the native land you are on! native-land.ca • What else is missing in OSM? Don't be afraid to propose new features, or to make pull requests on the map style • Thank you! slides: sta.mn / jzj