[OSM-talk] Species names

Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giudici at tidalwave.it
Thu Jul 9 12:56:14 BST 2009


Ed Avis wrote:
> Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giudici <at> tidalwave.it> writes:
>
>   
>> Thus, a good way to represent a species name would be a triple:
>> "taxonomy name", "taxonomy year", "binomial name". Eg.
>> "Clements", "2008", "Larus canus"
>>     
>
>   species:Clements:2008=Larus canus
>
> That also allows for other taxonomies to be added at the same time, and for
> more general 'species:Clements' and just plain 'species' in cases where the
> taxonomy is well-established, or the person doing the tagging isn't an expert.
> (I would just use the species name on display at the zoo, and tag it as
> 'species', unless I were enough of an expert to be more specific.)
>   
Sounds ok.

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