<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>I'm interested in the topic, but haven't been contributing information yet.</span></div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Some immediate issues that come to mind: M<span style="background-color: transparent; ">ost areas would have more than one species of flora, but not clear how to use the species tag in that way. Fauna
ranges are often not well defined in terms of existing landuse tags, so not sure if it is "appropriate". Some cases could clearly be, such as a protected area set up for a particular endangered species.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="background-color: transparent; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="background-color: transparent; ">-Mikel</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "> </div><div>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);
margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Alex Rollin <alex.rollin@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> talk@openstreetmap.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, October 22, 2012 2:12 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSM-talk] Scientific/Species Data in OSM Database - Collaborators<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv696994939">Hi,
<div><br></div><div>I have been looking through the wiki for more information about "appopriate data". </div><div><br></div><div>I would like to meet more of the people storing information about "presence of species", flora or fauna, inside the OSM db.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I see</div><div><br></div><div>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:species</div><div><br></div><div>and</div><div><br></div><div>http://tagstat.hypercube.telascience.org/tagdetails.php?tag=species</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any feedback about this is very welcome. We are just researching this now.</div><div><br></div><div>Alex</div><div>Bogor, Indonesia</div>
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