On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote:
Binomial names are written with a capital a space and a lowercased second
word. It's not a finite set, as it is even possible to mention cultivars.
It is not finite but it is standardized. Then, translations can be
automated in
2011/8/18 Pieren pier...@gmail.com:
I also found a related key formal documentation about taxon:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:taxon
which deprecates species and replaces genus by taxon:genus.
Again more inconsistencies in our documentation...
+1, it would be nice if alternatives
I just discover in the wiki the natural=tree enhancemens and
especially a (new) concept about tagging translations:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tree
The speciies and genus keys have to be fulfilled in latin and other
tags supply translations:
species=Juglans regia (this is the latin
Hi Pieren.
On the one hand I agree with you, that using latin in species without
specifying a language code differs from the way it is done with name and
name:* tags.
On the other hand latin AFAIK is the common language to name plant
species all over the world, and - differing from english
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Simone Saviolo
simone.savi...@gmail.com wrote:
+1. It's not a Latin name, but the scientific name itself.
Okay for latin ... but OSM shouldn't be reserved for experts imo. I'm
afraid that this sub-tag will need a systematic translation to human
readable text in
Pieren wrote:
species=Juglans regia (this is the latin species name for common walnut)
species:en=Common Walnut
species:de=Echte Walnuss
Is that a correct approach for internationalization ? Until now, a tag
was basically in english (like amenity=school) and if you want to
display its
On 18/08/11 10:46, Pieren wrote:
I just discover in the wiki the natural=tree enhancemens and
especially a (new) concept about tagging translations:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tree
The speciies and genus keys have to be fulfilled in latin and other
tags supply translations:
2011/8/18 Pieren pier...@gmail.com
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Simone Saviolo
simone.savi...@gmail.com wrote:
+1. It's not a Latin name, but the scientific name itself.
Okay for latin ... but OSM shouldn't be reserved for experts imo. I'm
afraid that this sub-tag will need a
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Simone Saviolo
simone.savi...@gmail.com wrote:
surface=paved is just as precise as species=Juglans regia. It's up to the
consumers to adapt it to their audience. Also, I'd expect that a Frenchmen
understands that a certain road is paved without the need to call
2011/8/18 Pieren pier...@gmail.com
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Simone Saviolo
simone.savi...@gmail.com wrote:
surface=paved is just as precise as species=Juglans regia. It's up to the
consumers to adapt it to their audience. Also, I'd expect that a
Frenchmen
understands that a
So most agree that the Latin name is the correct way of tagging.
Tobias also suggests keeping the species:de/en/... for users that
don't know the latin name or don't have the time to look it up.
This seems to be the only valid reason to still use the
species:en/de... tag, but I believe this would
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Sander Deryckere sander...@gmail.com wrote:
natural=tree
species=Quercus lanata
And the natural=tree enters in conflict with the landuse=orchard documentation:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dorchard
Merging both solutions would resutl in
2011/8/18 Pieren pier...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Sander Deryckere sander...@gmail.com wrote:
natural=tree
species=Quercus lanata
And the natural=tree enters in conflict with the landuse=orchard
documentation:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dorchard
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