[Tagging] species:language to loc_name:language

Minh Nguyen minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
Mon Nov 21 20:45:44 UTC 2022


Vào lúc 08:22 2022-11-21, Carlos Sánchez đã viết:
> In a lot of cases, users are using local names in the values for species 
> and genus keys.
> This is an error as genus and species only exist in latin. For 
> local/vulgar name users should use another key or be obtained using the 
> wikidata information.
> 
> I suggest changing species:language to l 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:loc_name>oc_name:language as 
> for the same species there exists a huge variability of common names, 
> not only differing by language.
> 
> Wiki for species:wikidata: Key:species:wikidata - OpenStreetMap Wiki 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:species:wikidata>
> Wiki for species: Key:species - OpenStreetMap Wiki 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:species>
> Use of the key species: Resultados de la búsqueda | OpenStreetMap 
> Taginfo <https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=species>

loc_name=* is for the local name of the feature itself, in other words, 
the local version of name=*. Some famous trees are known by proper 
names, but that's different than the (common) name of the species as a 
whole.

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minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us





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