On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Tom Pfeifer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20.08.2017 21:50, Tobias Zwick wrote: >> >> And here is the wikipedia article for Piper (plant): >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_(plant) > > > Well that is the Genus of 2000 different species, of which one is "Piper > nigrum", the common spice. > There are tags for genus [1] and species [2] in OSM, where you can use the > latin name. Beside these exceptions, tagging language is British English, > and in all varieties of English this spicy crop is 'pepper'.
The English word 'pepper' also applies to several plants in the genera Aframomum, Capsicum, Pimenta, Schinus, and Zanthophylum (plus others that are used in traditional herbal medicine but not for the kitchen). I think that the original poster wanted to disambiguate among these, which would make the Linnæan names the best option - there isn't any easy way to clarify it using only vulgar names. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
