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> On 9. Mar 2019, at 15:27, Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com
> wrote:
>
> When I tag an animal attraction at a zoo, I use the tags, for example,
> tourism=attraction, attraction=animal, animal=lion.
>
>
> However, on the wiki page; Tag: tourism=zoo, a user is directed to use, for
> example, name=African Elephant.
>
it is kind of a shortcut, generally what we tag is not just the animal but the
compound for the animal. IMHO tourism=attraction for all kind of animal
compounds in a zoo is born from tagging for the renderer, which is still
ongoing in many places. E.g. here you can see a beach with the name polar bear
(11 years ago) which has meanwhile become a bare rock with the same name
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/18343079/history
for me attraction=animal is ok as a tag for an (implicit) compound in a zoo
(used 11.5k times), although it has issues as it doesn’t allow to distinguish
animals in a cage from those running around “freely”, or the type of enclosure
(e.g. aviary), but tourism=attraction on every single item seems overkill.
To tag the kind of animal in the compound, we could reuse the tags from plant
tagging (“species” / “taxon”, localized if desired). With the name I would
refer to the compound, e.g. “elephant enclosure” , “ape house”
Ciao, Martin ___
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