<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">sent from a phone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 9. Mar 2019, at 15:27, Jack Armstrong <a href="mailto:Dancer@sprynet.com">Dancer@sprynet.com</a> <<a href="mailto:jacknstacy@sprynet.com">jacknstacy@sprynet.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">When I tag an animal attraction at a zoo, I use the tags, for example, tourism=attraction, attraction=animal, animal=lion.</span><br><div id="elnk_signature_1552141293298" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black;">
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">However, on the wiki page; Tag: tourism=zoo, a user is directed to use, for example, name=African Elephant.</p></div></div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div>it is kind of a shortcut, generally what we tag is not just the animal but the compound for the animal. IMHO tourism=attraction for all kind of animal compounds in a zoo is born from tagging for the renderer, which is still ongoing in many places. E.g. here you can see a beach with the name polar bear (11 years ago) which has meanwhile become a bare rock with the same name</div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/18343079/history">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/18343079/history</a></div><div><br></div><div>for me attraction=animal is ok as a tag for an (implicit) compound in a zoo (used 11.5k times), although it has issues as it doesn’t allow to distinguish animals in a cage from those running around “freely”, or the type of enclosure (e.g. aviary), but tourism=attraction on every single item seems overkill. </div><div><br></div><div>To tag the kind of animal in the compound, we could reuse the tags from plant tagging (“species” / “taxon”, localized if desired). With the name I would refer to the compound, e.g. “elephant enclosure” , “ape house”</div><div><br></div><div>Ciao, Martin </div></body></html>