[Talk-GB] Southwark update

Ed Avis eda at waniasset.com
Thu Mar 3 15:02:18 GMT 2011


Tom Chance <tom at ...> writes:

>>Tom, I've noticed you've added a large number of trees with species details
>>supplied by Southwark Council.

>I've also tried to crowdsource the common names for all of the species in the
>data set and add those in, along with any fruit/nuts they produce for people
>like me who are interested in foraging.

I think to get the common name you could grind your list against Wikipedia.
Ideally, only the scientific name would need to be tagged in OSM, with
natural language versions added automatically when rendering.  Is that the plan?

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Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>




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