the
vernacular name is more generic.
Jerry Clough
From: Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools tagging@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Monday, 27 April 2015, 16:44
Subject: [Tagging] Tag:natural=tree and taxon names
The wiki page for Tag:natural=tree
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
What can species= and genus= do, that taxon= cannot?
If all you know is the species, you can feel comfortable tagging the
species.
Tagging the taxon may not feel right, or may be too intimidating.
Same for common
I had a look at the page for natural=tree and there is no example using
taxon. For me that resulted in the use of species when known. Until
yesterday I didn't even know how taxon could be used and it is confusing
that it can look the same as genus or species.
OTOH I do understand that using 3
On 28 April 2015 at 07:16, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
What can species= and genus= do, that taxon= cannot?
If all you know is the species, you can feel comfortable tagging the
species.
That
Am 28.04.2015 um 11:29 schrieb Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk:
Again; why do we need species=* and genus=* on that basis?
you're right that we don't need them, the less specific key taxon covers all
kind of taxons, still people seem to prefer species and genus (together 600K
On 27 April 2015 at 17:42, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
be as explicit as you can, live and let live. E.g. if you know and tag the
species you can omit the rest of the taxonomy tags, if you don't know it, a
genus will be very welcome because it is much more information than
The wiki page for Tag:natural=tree:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree
includes:
taxon=*
and:
species=*
genus=*
The latter pair is a subset of the former; and thus redundant.
How should this be resolved?
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
2015-04-27 17:44 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk:
The latter pair is a subset of the former; and thus redundant.
How should this be resolved?
be as explicit as you can, live and let live. E.g. if you know and tag the
species you can omit the rest of the taxonomy tags, if
On 27/04/15 16:44, Andy Mabbett wrote:
The wiki page for Tag:natural=tree:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree
includes:
taxon=*
and:
species=*
genus=*
The latter pair is a subset of the former; and thus redundant.
How should this be resolved?
It's often
