On 10/03/17 22:27, Joshua Houston wrote: > It occurred to me that "man_made" is an outdated term that should be 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
I generally support these kinds of things. However such an old tag is in use so much, that changing it would really mess a lot of things up for a while. You'd need a lot of work to move over. So I'm skeptical purely for practical reasons. And I presume you're not talking about changing things in the USA, but worldwide, so it would be best to use the talk@ and/or tagging@ mailing lists. Some might say "man" is gender neutral. I'll believe that when straight men talk about all the men they've slept with. I don't think this sort of thing is unique to the USA. The British film Hot Fuzz has lots of jokes about "policeman" vs "police officer". Rory _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
