2009/7/7 Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com>: > Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com> writes: > >>Rather than plant_type=orange_tree or similar, I think it would make more >>sense >>to tag plants and trees with the scientific (Latin) name of their species or >>hybrid. These are already standardized and the local language translations >>('citrus x sinensis' => 'en:orange', 'es:naranja') are also standard, and can >>be >>looked up by the map renderer rather than duplicated for every orange tree on >>the map. >> >>I don't expect individual plants will be tagged very often (even the Germans >>have not added the 'unter den' linden trees) but for managed forests and >>perhaps >>farmland it might be useful. > > I thought of mentioning zoo animals but I thought it too silly. But look: > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.50826&lon=13.33929&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF> > > I think this would be better tagged with scientific names for the animals > rather > than 'name' holding the local-language names. Then the mapnik rendering rules > can be extended with little icons for penguins, polar bears and so on. We > could > even have little fish swimming in the oceans like the maps in olden days.
"on the ground rule" applies... name should be the local language. If you want to add a "species_taxonomy" (or similar) tag then feel free. :-) Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk