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 expected, we add the genus (will use this as example for reference in this mail, but species, taxon, etc. behave the same) of the plant (tree in this example) as a tag. Now to plant nurseries, according to the wiki the suggested tagging is (they do not have their own tag but rely on the landuse attribute, but that is another topic I will not deal with here): landuse=plant_nursery plant=* The generic type of plant that is grown, e.g. tree, herb, bush, grass, vine, fern, moss, green-algae genus=* species=* ... wait, this is strange, the same tag "genus" now does not refer to the object it is attached to (an implicit plant_nursery) but refers to the plants that are grown. Similarly, on the genus key page, there are references to natural=wetland etc. 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. Cheers, Martin ___ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dplant_nursery http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:genus
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