[OSM-talk] Species names

[Ed Avis]

John Smith <delta_foxtrot <at> yahoo.com> writes:

[species of animals]

>What about name:scientific or name:sci ?

It's still not really the name of the object on the ground, which is called
'The Reptile House', or even the name of the animal, which is called 'Lizzy the
Lizard' or similar.  So I think the right tagging is 'animal=Loxodonta africana'
or 'species=Loxodonta africana', rather than putting it into 'name'.

Local-language species names could be 'species:en=African elephant' or similar,
though in principle they can be looked up automatically from the scientific name.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>