Nice investigating Nathan, I would be open to using artificial instead of human_made.
Would it be best to change the proposal or start a second proposal? Change man_made= to artificial= Rob On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 21:14, nathan case <[email protected]> wrote: > Pros and cons aside, “human-made” is not a term that is in current > widespread usage. As a native English GB speaker, I find it clunky and > somewhat distracting. > > A better gender neutral term might be “artificial”, which is already a > synonym for “man-made” and is already widely used. > > Indeed, the Handbook of Nonsexist Writing suggests: "artificial, handmade, > hand-built, synthetic, manufactured, fabricated, machine-made, and > constructed" as options instead of man-made. Presumably the majority (if > not all) of OSM "man-made" tags relate to objects which are not naturally > occurring. Therefore "artificial" seems to hold. > > Other sources: > https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/gender-inclusive-language/ > > https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Usage/faq0053.html > https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/man-made > > An issue may arise if artificial is already being used as a tag however. > > Best, > > Nathan > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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