Marc Schütz <schuetzm <at> gmx.net> writes: >No real opinion on the question whether to use the scientific names or not, but >if you do, please do _not_ use name:la for that purpose, because this would be >how the ancient romans (or the speakers of Modern Latin) call the animals.
Agreed - and more to the point, an animal's species is not its name! I do not answer to the name of 'homo sapiens' and neither do you. name:la=Rex species=Canis lupus familiaris I don't expect it will be common to add individual dogs to OSM, except perhaps in this case: <http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1267477.ece> -- Ed Avis <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
