Another illusion shattered... where is this world going to? Best, Peter Elderson
> Op 19 okt. 2020 om 13:48 heeft Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> het volgende > geschreven: > > > It would be best to first consider the consequences of such a change. Weigh > the benefits against what we lose in time (humanhours?) and resources/energy. > And then there is still the point that many objects will get new timestamps > for a change that's not really a change. > > Anyway, artificial sounds like made up to me. artificial=dyke, not really a > dyke, but it looks like it. > > man_made has the advantage of being succinct. Most people will immediately > understand what is meant by it. Almost nobody will think women were not > involved in the creation of the feature. > > Polyglot > >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 12:42 PM Robert Delmenico <rob...@rtbk.com.au> wrote: >> 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 <nathanc...@outlook.com> 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 >>> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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