Looks good. After reading this discussion page on the natural=tree wiki, I think their model of naming the trees (which you now follow) is the better way to go.
Sean On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 00:58, Kenny Moens <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Based on the input here, and the description of th natural=tree key, I've > ammended the plant nursery proposal: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Plant_nursery > > Please note that this is not exactly the suggestion made by Sean, but > rather based on the existing way of tagging as used by the natural=tree tag. > > > Additionally I've created a new draft which contains the plant proposal > itself, and the involved keys: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Plant > > Kind regards, > > Kenny Moens > > > On 11/12/2010 22:55, Sean Horgan wrote: > > I just took a quick look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species and it > says there are about 7 million identified species, or which plants represent > around 300k. On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree it supplies a > definition of a tree and common names used by most people to identify a tree > seem to have detailed wikipedia pages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak), > which go on to link to specific species (oak: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Quercus_species). > > It looks like a lot of the specifics can be directly referenced so it > wouldn't need to be duplicated in the OSM wiki. > > Depending on how much the tagger wants to record, you could define a tree > node as follows: > > plant=<type>, where type={tree, herb, bush, grass, vine, fern, moss, > green-algae} > <type>=<common name> > species=<latin classification> > > For example: > > plant=tree > tree=oak > species=*Quercus alba <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_alba>* > > -- > Sean > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 02:10, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 2010/12/8 Sean Horgan <[email protected]>: >> >> > Hi Kenny, >> > The new proposal looks good. >> > Are you going to create a new plant key? Maybe at least a landing page >> and >> > some examples that cover your original needs to describe trees. >> >> >> I suggest to amend the species type with the latin classification >> scheme, like it is in use for natural=tree. This permits to >> unambigously tag the specific plants. The suggested plant-tag could be >> used as preliminary / rough tag to make differences between trees, >> grass, etc. >> >> cheers, >> Martin >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing > [email protected]http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > -- > Kenny Moens > >
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