[Tagging] species:name - for name of species at attraction=animal

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 26. Dec 2020, at 23:46, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 
> I described it in the original post.
> 
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2020-December/057448.html
> "Many people are interested in mapping zoo detail, especially where given animal has an enclosure 
> 
> It would be desirable to render it on many maps, likely also general purpose maps (as in zoo areas in high zooms it is among the most important info)."
> Isn’t this be like adding local names for surface values, e.g. surface:name=Schotter for a German road?
> No, because rendering what kind of animal is in a given enclosure is standard and 
> desirable (to the point of having many kind of tagging for renderer to achieve this),
> while rendering surface names is highly unusual.


I can understand that rendering the name of an animal is interesting for the map, but I don’t understand why it has to be the local language, I’d rather expect it to be in the language the user is using, seems way more useful 


Cheers Martin 
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