[OSM-talk] Species names

[Claudius]

Am 09.07.2009 12:16, 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'.

+1
I would go for species=<latin species name> as well.

Claudius