Key:genus

Description
The scientific name of the genus for a living or fossil organism. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: natural
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesmay be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Documented values: 4
See also
Status: approvedPage for proposal
More details at taginfo
Tools for this tag

The scientific name of the genus for a living or fossil organism. The genus is a low-level taxonomic rank: the first part of the so-called scientific name (latin). This tag should be used in combination with natural=tree, natural=wetland or similar. It may also be appropriate to use it with natural=wood or landuse=forest.

It appears that most mappers write the genus value with a capital letter, e.g. Quercus or Picea. This follows the scientific convention for writing genus names.

Translated names of the =* tag are also in use, for example genus:de=* and genus:en=*.

Most common used values

see more on https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/genus#values


Possible tagging mistakes

  • wood=* ‒ This tag has been deprecated.
If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

See also

This article is issued from OpenStreetMap Wiki. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.