2009/7/9 Jacek Konieczny <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:27:29AM +0000, John Smith wrote: >> >> --- On Thu, 9/7/09, "Marc Schütz" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > 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. >> >> What about name:scientific or name:sci ? > > Not name. Name of the object may be some quite different than the > species it is for. > > A dog is named 'Spike' although it is of species 'Canis lupus'. > > name=Spike > species=Canis lupus > > Even single trees (those important for some reason) may have their own names. > E.g. the 'Washington Tree', which is much better object to be mapped in > OSM then the dog Spike: > > natural=tree > name=Washington Tree > species=Sequoiadendron giganteum > > We could make it: > species:scientific=Sequoiadendron giganteum
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