[OSM-talk] Species names

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/7/9 Jacek Konieczny <jajcus at jajcus.net>:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:27:29AM +0000, John Smith wrote:
>>
>> --- On Thu, 9/7/09, "Marc Schütz" <schuetzm at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> > please do _not_ use name:la for that purpose, because this
>> > would be how the ancient romans (or the speakers of Modern
>> > Latin) call the animals.
>>
>> What about name:scientific or name:sci ?
>
> Not name. Name of the object may be some quite different than the
> species it is for.
>
> A dog is named 'Spike' although it is of species 'Canis lupus'.
>
> name=Spike
> species=Canis lupus
>
> Even single trees (those important for some reason) may have their own names.
> E.g. the 'Washington Tree', which is much better object to be mapped in
> OSM then the dog Spike:
>
> natural=tree
> name=Washington Tree
> species=Sequoiadendron giganteum
>
> We could make it:
> species:scientific=Sequoiadendron giganteum

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