iNature has valuable information for local tourism and I believe it is one of the best sites to get accurate data for Israel - outdoor.
In order to link between OSM and iNature I propose to use the following tag: inature:website.
I’ve contacted iNature owner and have their consent to linking from OSM to their site.
iNature uses pages like wikipedia and the most convinient way to link will be to use the title of the page, for example: inature:website=שמורת דלבים which will link to שמורת דלבים – iNature
Here’s a link to a csv with the relevant matching between OSM and iNature:
I’ve updated the link permission, you can access it now I hope.
I thought about which is better, and since the link is not a full address of the site I think inature:website is better than website:inature, but I don’t have strong feeling either way…
I understand that the value of the tags will be the name used by iNature, such as שמורת דלבים, and not a URL.
I therefore suggest that the key of the tags will be inature:name, rather than inature:website, and similar to mtb:name.
This key also suggests that the goal of this tag is to map OSM elements to iNature names.
what the local community tends to do here in such situations is to rather use “ref” tags, e.g. ref:FR:CAIRN=12345 or ref:refuges.info=67890. As far as I understand there is a well known mechanism for apps to convert that into URLs, without making QA processes more complex than necessary.
The rules are presented in the form of semantic triples in Wikidata or OSM knowledge bases.
Several applications use theses rules, at least JOSM, Osmose…
This is not an URL/Website, but this is similar to wikipedia key.
You could simply propose the tag inature and use the Tag2Link rules.
But ref:IL:inature (with the ISO Alpha-2 code IL for Israel) would be more consistent with other keys using this mechanism.
Or ref:inature.info similarly to ref:refuges.info.
Currently there are:
249website tags containing the value “nature.info”
Resolving this was not a trivial task. In short: There are two different nature reserves, close to one another, with very similar names: “שחלבים במנרה” (Sahlavim BeManara) and “סחלבים מנרה” (Sahlavim Manara).
I have separated the two and added a note for the benefit of other mappers.
Note: The “Sahlavim BeManara Nature Reserve”, located further away from Manara itself, is also known as “Har Nezer Nature Reserve”, based on its accurate geographic location.
