[Tagging] attraction=animal

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 6. May 2019, at 14:29, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So, should we just keep tagging zoo enclosures with the names of the
> animals, or is there a new tag that could work for these situations
> where species= and genus= won't work?


generally species and genus refer to the tagged object. The zoo enclosures aren’t the objects where these tags would fit, and we are not tagging the animals themselves but their enclosures, aren’t we?

We could have a tag like for_species= and allow a list of species there.

the localized species tag have been introduced to allow tagging of information without knowing the scientific name, but it has some drawbacks (can be ambiguous, requires further translation if you intend to make sense of values in different languages, ...) so generally I would encourage latin names where possible (in zoos you can often see them on signs).

A part from zoos, we are also mostly missing tags for animal enclosures in agricultural context by the way (pasture, open air/grazing parts of stables, pigsties, hen houses, cowsheds, sheep shelter , etc., enclosures at slaughter houses, etc)


Cheers, Martin