[Tagging] Proposal to change key:man_made to key:human_made

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Oct 15, 2020, 14:58 by andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com:

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> On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 23:44, Volker Schmidt <> voschix at gmail.com> > wrote:
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>> May I remind my dear mapper friends, that tags are just that: tags. From the database point of view these are just couples of arbitrarily chosen, character strings. OSM uses a convention to make it easier to memorize these strings by using GB-English terms for them, but, I repeat that is just a convention to help our human brain facilities. If you were to replace the string "man_made" at every occurrence in the database and in all programs that use the database with "3rgnJI)oò-" this would make no difference to OSM (provided you use different strings for different keys/values), but it would make a huge differnce to the work of inserting/correcting/consulting data by human beings.
>> In addition, replacing one string with another string in all occurrences in OSM, apart from creating completely unnecessary new versiones of the objects, is trivial. Changing all products that make use of these data will be an enormous amount of work. 
>> And all this effort achieve what?
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> Exactly. The human readable version of tags is done through things like editor presets and partly via the wiki infoboxes, where they can be localised into different languages and regions. The actual tag names bear zero weight
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I would not go so far, large part of edits is interacting with raw tag values and "zero weight" is a 
significant overstatement

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