On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 14:04, Dave F via Tagging <[email protected]> wrote:
I mean, *everything* is either man made or natural. > Unless you want to argue that humans are supernatural or unnatural, humans are natural. Therefore anything humans make is natural, just as beaver dams and wasps' nests are natural. If you wish to argue that humans are a special exception then everything we make is man_made, so buildings, bridges, parks, gardens, etc. is man_made. OSM tagging is not a good candidate for cladistic taxonomy. There is too much multiple inheritance to even consider that type of taxonomy. Houses are buildings, which are man-made, houses have walls and walls are built, so man_made=house and building=wall Except humans build walls, so man_made=wall. > We really should come up with more specific, accurate key tags. > Perhaps in some cases. Where such need arises it happens, such as with healthcare. On balance, moving to human_made or artificial is a lot of pain without any gain whatsoever with regard to map accuracy in order to appease the feelings of those who do not understand etymology. Are we to next propose persontoric=* because those who do not understand etymology object to a supposed gender bias in "historic"? That the proposer profusely thanks those who put forward arguments against the change whilst apparently ignoring those arguments does nothing to persuade me of the merits of his/her case. It smacks of the so-called "non-confrontational" tactics that might better be called "passive confrontational." -- Paul
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