I'm interested in this topic in order to be able to map flowerbeds in a rose garden. Besides the problem with the genus/species/taxon tagging, I also need to be able to properly tag the flowerbeds themselves. There seems to be quite some variants for that as well. So I hope the outcome of this discussion is also applicable to flowerbeds.
regards m On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com > wrote: > I believe there are some semantic issues with how the wiki currently > suggests to tag details of plants, e.g. with the tags "genus" or "species". > > This originates from tree tagging (AFAIK), where the suggested tagging is: > > natural=tree > genus=... > species=... > taxon=... > etc. > > NO ISSUES in this, works as expected, we add the genus (will use this as > example for reference in this mail, but species, taxon, etc. behave the > same) of the plant (tree in this example) as a tag. > > > Now to plant nurseries, according to the wiki the suggested tagging is > (they do not have their own tag but rely on the landuse attribute, but that > is another topic I will not deal with here): > > landuse=plant_nursery > plant=* The generic type of plant that is grown, e.g. tree, herb, bush, > grass, vine, fern, moss, green-algae > genus=* > species=* > ... > > wait, this is strange, the same tag "genus" now does not refer to the > object it is attached to (an implicit plant_nursery) but refers to the > plants that are grown. > > > Similarly, on the genus key page, there are references to natural=wetland > etc. > > I think this is an inconsistency in tagging and would be interested to > hear if you believe the recommendation should be changed. E.g. we could > have a "plant:genus" to explicitly state that the genus refers to the > plants rather than the nursery. > > Cheers, > Martin > > ___ > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dplant_nursery > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:genus > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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