On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:27:29AM +0000, John Smith wrote:
>
> --- On Thu, 9/7/09, "Marc Schütz" <schue...@gmx.net> 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
or
species:binomial=Sequoiadendron giganteum
But why? For some objects there would be 'species:scientific=*' defined,
but no 'species=*' value known in English (not every species on the
Earth have English names).
Greets,
Jacek
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