[Tagging] What key for animal related "amenities"?

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On 15/01/13 12:21, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> 2013/1/15 Martin Vonwald <imagic.osm at gmail.com>:
>> 2013/1/15 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
>>> IMHO animal is a good key for this, but you could also use one of the others like amenity, man_made, building, leisure ;-)
>>
>> Actually I think that animal is a rather bad key for this. To me this
>> would name the animal the feature is related to. Taginfo also tells us
>> that the main use of this key is the value "yes". The other values are
>> a mixture of features and animals. So not really a clear idea behind
>> this key.
> 
> 
> Yes, you are right that actual usage of the key doesn't back up this
> suggestion. I was referring to this page
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Animal which lists values like
> "swimming", "wellness", "cemetery", "crematorium" etc. for the animal
> key. Maybe we should decide which way to go here (e.g. IF we wanted to
> discourage tagging animal types with this we could propose
> animal:species or for_animal:species or simply species for this use
> case).

The second part (species) comes from attraction=animal. This needs to be clarified.

I tend to use genus=*, species=* or even taxon=* for a description of the
animals in jail.

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