[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Plant Nursery

[Sean Horgan]

Looks good.  After reading this discussion page on the natural=tree wiki, I
think their model of naming the trees (which you now follow) is the better
way to go.

Sean

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 00:58, Kenny Moens <streetmap at functor.be> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> Based on the input here, and the description of th natural=tree key, I've
> ammended the plant nursery proposal:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Plant_nursery
>
> Please note that this is not exactly the suggestion made by Sean, but
> rather based on the existing way of tagging as used by the natural=tree tag.
>
>
> Additionally I've created a new draft which contains the plant proposal
> itself, and the involved keys:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Plant
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Kenny Moens
>
>
> On 11/12/2010 22:55, Sean Horgan wrote:
>
> I just took a quick look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species and it
> says there are about 7 million identified species, or which plants represent
> around 300k.  On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree it supplies a
> definition of a tree and common names used by most people to identify a tree
> seem to have detailed wikipedia pages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak),
> which go on to link to specific species (oak:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Quercus_species).
>
>  It looks like a lot of the specifics can be directly referenced so it
> wouldn't need to be duplicated in the OSM wiki.
>
>  Depending on how much the tagger wants to record, you could define a tree
> node as follows:
>
>  plant=<type>, where type={tree, herb, bush, grass, vine, fern, moss,
> green-algae}
> <type>=<common name>
> species=<latin classification>
>
>  For example:
>
>  plant=tree
> tree=oak
> species=*Quercus alba <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_alba>*
>
>  --
> Sean
>
>  On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 02:10, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <
> dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2010/12/8 Sean Horgan <sean.horgan at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > Hi Kenny,
>> > The new proposal looks good.
>> > Are you going to create a new plant key?  Maybe at least a landing page
>> and
>> > some examples that cover your original needs to describe trees.
>>
>>
>>  I suggest to amend the species type with the latin classification
>> scheme, like it is in use for natural=tree. This permits to
>> unambigously tag the specific plants. The suggested plant-tag could be
>> used as preliminary / rough tag to make differences between trees,
>> grass, etc.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>>
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