Fair enough --- but please be clear that this form of discussion is
highly divisive in and of itself, and should be treated as such.
It is pointless in the sense that renaming "man_made=" to "human_made="
will not help the development of the map in any way. Bike-shedding about
this only wastes time. It generates a political issue where there need
be none.
Joel
On 10/03/17 14:45, Ian Dees wrote:
Please keep discussion on topic and positive.
Discouraging further discussion by applying labels such as "pointless"
to someone's opinion makes this list less open to those that believe it
is an important thing to discuss.
Thanks,
Ian
(Your friendly talk-us moderator)
On Mar 10, 2017 16:38, "Joel Holdsworth" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
No.
"Man" has been a general term for humanity in the English language
since time immemorial.
It is only feminists who wish to divide humanity along gender lines
who have a problem with "man" as a term of reference. Such
argumentation is deliberately divisive, and serves no purpose.
There is no need for the change, or a pointless discussion about
such a change.
Please lets get on with making an awesome map.
Best Regards
Joel Holdsworth
On 10/03/17 14:27, Joshua Houston wrote:
Hi,
It occurred to me that "man_made" is an outdated term that should be
phased out from OpenStreetMap language. The philosophy of
OpenStreetMap
is very inclusive and that should be represented even in the way
data is
tagged. I'd like to propose to change the key from "man_made" to
"human_made" and start a discussion on it. Many parts of society are
trying to implement a more inclusive language, NASA for instance has
changed "manned missions" to "crewed missions". I think it is an
important goal to make OSM inclusive whenever there is a choice.
Thanks!
Joshua Houston
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