Re: animal:goat=yes and animal:sheep=yes vs animal/livestock=goat;sheep I think this is a situation where it's ok to use semi-colon separated values, since otherwise we would have quite a long list of keys (there are 838 values for animal=* currently, and at least several hundred of those are specific animal names). Since this is a property tag, rather than a tag that specifies a particular feature, it's okay to use a semicolon.
Also, animal:de, animal:fr and 6 other language codes have already been used in this namespace, so it would be difficult for an editor to offer a proper list of animal names by just looking for all keys in the format "animal:<type_of_animal>=*". While there are a large number of animals kept in captivity, livestock in particular prefers to land animals that have value to agriculture, mainly for meat (or milk) production, though also including draft animals like horses, donkeys, oxen and water buffalo; the idea is that "livestock" is a farmer's valuable property which consists of live animals, as opposed to animal products or land, so it usually excludes pets which do not have economic value, and animals hunted but not owned. This makes the possible list much shorter (maybe 100 types of livestock total?), helpful for mappers to find in a preset or drop-down. Since aquaculture has it's own tag, I think zoos can keep animal=* for the whole list of possible captive animals, and livestock=* could focus on the smaller list of those found in pastures, paddocks, barns and farmyards. On 8/20/19, Graeme Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 10:47, Warin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Separating animals into categories of 'exotic', 'livestock', 'native', >> 'working, 'feral' and 'pet' .. this would be area dependant. >> > > & you could have the same animal fitting into different categories at the > same place, at the same time. > > eg in Northern Australia, water buffalo are in introduced species that have > now become feral, & are classified as a pest ("exotic"; "feral"). However, > they are rounded up / harvested for meat, usually for pet food > ("livestock"?); while hunters can pay to go on guided hunts to shoot them > ("?") > > > Kangaroos in many areas of the world would be 'exotic' in some others >> 'native', yet to see 'livestock' but there is hope. >> > > To a professional roo shooter? Yes, could be "livestock"? > > Thanks > > Graeme > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
