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

Brian M. Sperlongano zelonewolf at gmail.com
Mon Dec 28 00:27:18 UTC 2020


That does sound interesting

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 7:09 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 26. Dec 2020, at 23:46, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
> tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>

How can we accomplish this while not also having multiple translations for
"tiger" each time there's a tiger enclosure?  That seems redundant.
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