data/presets: taxon, taxon:genus added to help identify plants #3600
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The present recommendation is to use taxon:*, although the data of old surveys using this previous convention should be displayed to the user as well.
These were the kind of objects indicated at the definition: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:taxon Marsh was skipped because it is a deprecated tag and iD has no preset for it. Height is also a common tag for trees.
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Not sure if I want to add these fields to the sidebar. Is it fair to say that only a trained botanist can input data properly into them? |
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Well, if one wants to fill in all the fields they must probably use Wikipedia. According to the OSM wiki, the previous At the most basic level, when fruits are visible in summer, any lay person should be capable of tagging at least |
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My worry is that people will type wrong things into here and then other people will complain that "iD is encouraging people to put in bad data". @SK53, you know more about these tags than I do. Do you think the benefits of making it easy for casual mappers to enter |
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So I've thought about this more, and I still think the risks of adding these biology fields outweigh the benefits of adding them to the iD sidebar. We haven't said so before, but I believe that every field in iD should be something that an untrained beginner mapper with local knowledge can understand and contribute to OSM. I think most of our fields meet that standard. Some fields that are a bit iffy:
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https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:taxon
Add taxon to wood, tree*, hedge, forest, scrub, heath
(These were the kind of objects indicated at the definition)
Marsh was skipped because it is a deprecated tag and iD has no
preset for it.
Height is also a common tag for trees.
Display legacy fields.