[Tagging] semantic issue with genus in the wiki, wetland, plant nursery, ...

2014-12-01 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
I believe there are some semantic issues with how the wiki currently suggests to tag details of plants, e.g. with the tags genus or species. This originates from tree tagging (AFAIK), where the suggested tagging is: natural=tree genus=... species=... taxon=... etc. NO ISSUES in this, works as

Re: [Tagging] semantic issue with genus in the wiki, wetland, plant nursery, ...

2014-12-01 Thread Marc Gemis
I'm interested in this topic in order to be able to map flowerbeds in a rose garden. Besides the problem with the genus/species/taxon tagging, I also need to be able to properly tag the flowerbeds themselves. There seems to be quite some variants for that as well. So I hope the outcome of this

Re: [Tagging] semantic issue with genus in the wiki, wetland, plant nursery, ...

2014-12-01 Thread Kotya Karapetyan
I think this is an inconsistency in tagging and would be interested to hear if you believe the recommendation should be changed. E.g. we could have a plant:genus to explicitly state that the genus refers to the plants rather than the nursery. I agree about the inconsistency. In general I

Re: [Tagging] semantic issue with genus in the wiki, wetland, plant nursery, ...

2014-12-01 Thread Holger Jeromin
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote on 01.12.2014 11:22: I believe there are some semantic issues with how the wiki currently suggests to tag details of plants, e.g. with the tags genus or species. Now to plant nurseries, according to the wiki the suggested tagging is (they do not have their own tag

Re: [Tagging] semantic issue with genus in the wiki, wetland, plant nursery, ...

2014-12-01 Thread althio forum
2014-12-01 14:25 GMT+01:00 Holger Jeromin mailgm...@katur.de: genus and species is defined as a name for an organism, not only plants. I added the species to animals in a zoo: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/286321033 So for producing landuse like plant_nursery a prefix named product:

Re: [Tagging] semantic issue with genus in the wiki, wetland, plant nursery, ...

2014-12-01 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-12-01 16:59 GMT+01:00 althio forum althio.fo...@gmail.com: If produce:genus can replace and unite produce/crop/trees for producing landuse like plant_nursery/farmland/orchard without any loss in meaning I think it is a worthwhile proposal. no, it can't, because genus is expected to be