<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr">sent from a phone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 18. Dec 2019, at 20:08, Clifford Snow <clifford@snowandsnow.us> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>How should eelgrass[1] be tagged? I see that wetland=reedbed [2] has been used in tidal areas mainly in Europe but also in the US but they are two different plants. </div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zostera">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zostera</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>there is also a different plant family of the same order whose species are called eelgrass: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallisneria">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallisneria</a><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_bed">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_bed</a></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>many different although similar plants.</div><div><br></div><div>Should eelgrass habitats be seen as a distinct wetland type in OpenStreetMap? You could also combine other tags like species or taxon with a feature like natural=wetland, or landcover=eelgrass</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers Martin </div></body></html>