[Tagging] semantic issue with "genus" in the wiki, wetland, plant nursery, ...

Marc Gemis marc.gemis at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 11:07:14 UTC 2014


I'm interested in this topic in order to be able to map flowerbeds in a
rose garden. Besides the problem with the genus/species/taxon tagging, I
also need to be able to properly tag the flowerbeds themselves. There seems
to be quite some variants for that as well.
So I hope the outcome of this discussion is also applicable to flowerbeds.

regards

m




On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I believe there are some semantic issues with how the wiki currently
> suggests to tag details of plants, e.g. with the tags "genus" or "species".
>
> This originates from tree tagging (AFAIK), where the suggested tagging is:
>
> natural=tree
> genus=...
> species=...
> taxon=...
> etc.
>
> NO ISSUES in this, works as expected, we add the genus (will use this as
> example for reference in this mail, but species, taxon, etc. behave the
> same) of the plant (tree in this example) as a tag.
>
>
> Now to plant nurseries, according to the wiki the suggested tagging is
> (they do not have their own tag but rely on the landuse attribute, but that
> is another topic I will not deal with here):
>
> landuse=plant_nursery
> plant=* The generic type of plant that is grown, e.g. tree, herb, bush,
> grass, vine, fern, moss, green-algae
> genus=*
> species=*
> ...
>
> wait, this is strange, the same tag "genus" now does not refer to the
> object it is attached to (an implicit plant_nursery) but refers to the
> plants that are grown.
>
>
> Similarly, on the genus key page, there are references to natural=wetland
> etc.
>
> I think this is an inconsistency in tagging and would be interested to
> hear if you believe the recommendation should be changed. E.g. we could
> have a "plant:genus" to explicitly state that the genus refers to the
> plants rather than the nursery.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dplant_nursery
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:genus
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