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Irrelevant of any implied meaning, 'man_made' always appeared to be
a clunky, catch-all tag. OSM was being a bit lazy.<br>
I mean, *everything* is either man made or natural. We really
should come up with more specific, accurate key tags.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/10/2020 12:45, Jo wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div>Anyway, artificial sounds like made up to me.
artificial=dyke, not really a dyke, but it looks like it.</div>
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<div>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
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<div>Nice investigating Nathan,</div>
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<div>I would be open to using artificial instead of
human_made.</div>
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<div>Would it be best to change the proposal or start
a second proposal?</div>
<div>Change man_made= to artificial=</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at
21:14, nathan case <<a
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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A better gender neutral term might be “artificial”, which
is already a synonym for “man-made” and is already widely
used. <br>
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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.<br>
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Other sources: <br>
<a
href="https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/gender-inclusive-language/"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/gender-inclusive-language/</a>
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<a
href="https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Usage/faq0053.html"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Usage/faq0053.html</a><br>
<a
href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/man-made"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/man-made</a><br>
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An issue may arise if artificial is already being used as
a tag however.<br>
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Best,<br>
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Nathan<br>
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