First Nations FNTT12 and FNTT13 are both named "Tetlit Gwich'in Council". Duplicate or typo?

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First Nations FNTT12 and FNTT13 are both named "Tetlit Gwich'in Council". Duplicate or typo? #94

Open cstephen opened 2 years ago

charparr commented 2 years ago

These seem to be separate because one polygon is a "Primary Use Area" while the other is a "Secondary Use Area" (there is a field type in the dataset that has this info, other values include "Traditional Territory" and "Settlement Region") - there may be some distinction between these but I don't know that it is important to our use case. We could potentially merge these two particular polygons? @MikeDelue may know more.

MikeDelue commented 2 years ago

These are distinct land planning regions but both Gwich'in territory. Would be best to merge the Type field with the Name field to produce "Tetlit Gwich'in Council Primary Use Area" and "Tetlit Gwich'in Council Secondary Use Area". I'd advise against merging.

charparr commented 2 years ago

Good shout there Mike! Thanks for weighing in. Should we just use the combined names for all the polygons (i.e., every name is the name and the type like "Selkirk First Nation Traditional Territory"?

Just to illustrate in case we have to look back, these are the polygons in question (not projected):

MikeDelue commented 2 years ago

Merging would work well. All of the names would include the type label to keep them unique with the universal type label "First Nations Traditional Territory".