"Animal Enclosure" Tag

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I was editing the map at a local zoo and saw it was possible to tag an area as an Animal Enclosure, which I proceeded to do with several animal enclosures within the zoo. There appears to be no way to add a note for what species the enclosure obtains. Is there a way I’m not seeing, and if not, could it be added?

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  1. can you link location you edited?

  2. in such case looking at other similar locations (sometimes in other countries can be helpful)

  3. zoo at OSM Wiki points to Tag:tourism=zoo - OpenStreetMap Wiki which links Tag:attraction=animal - OpenStreetMap Wiki which has some ideas how animal may be indicated

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Hi, From looking at the advice here:- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:attraction=animal I’d say name=??? or species=???

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Yes, I see now how you can tag it to Wikidata. Is there any way to list multiple species for a single enclosure?

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I’d recommend the semicolon separator. Using species for horses and donkeys I’d tag

species = Equus ferus; Equus africanus
species:en = Horse; Donkey

Let’s hope order is preserved by the data consumers :laughing:

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You could add the animals as points inside the enclosure. This way you lose some information but it is better to maintain if there are multiple animals, sharing one enclosure.

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Not exactly, domesticated horse is a subspecies Equus ferus caballus. This is reflected in horse - Wikidata — Then taxon= / taxon:*= is needed to match taxon:wikidata=Q726.

Tagging of animals across features is very chaotic. Reminds me of how wood=palm is deprecated by reason of wood=, causing the appropriation of trees=palm from landuse=orchard.

  • animal= is feature not attribute, caused by =horse_walker, =school, =crematorium etc
  • amenity= + animal_training=
  • amenity= + animal_shelter=
  • amenity= + animal_boarding=
  • landuse=animal_keeping + animal_keeping= causing the yet another unfortunate animal_keeping:type=
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Oh why is this thread revived… Btw, problem with this is attraction=animal commonly means a single enclosure. Adding multiple creates an impression of multiple enclosures, when the animals are to be seen in a mix.
It’s an unfortunate consequence similar to attraction=water_slide being used directly for the slide itself, necessitating splitting for layer= in a departure from the usual meaning of attraction as an integral feature; instead of the format of =roller_coaster for the entire area, roller_coaster=track for individual sections.

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I thought about an area as enclosure, including multiple points with attraction=animal.

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