[Tagging] Proposal to change key:man_made to key:human_made
Niels Elgaard Larsen
elgaard at agol.dk
Mon Oct 19 09:51:03 UTC 2020
Jo:
> Are they really people who see the tag man_made and go:
>
> Oh, women didn't contribute to this! The tag says so...
The same people that think that man_made=manhole* implies access:women=no
But i guess that would become human_made=humanhole
We will also have to make it healthcare=midhuman
> Isn't it obvious that man in this case stands for its original meaning: Mensch, ser
> humano, etc?
>
> Changing it in the database is trivially easy. Letting everyone who uses OSM data
> know and give them a chance to adapt to the change, not so much.
>
> Polyglot
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 10:16 AM Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at rushpost.com
> <mailto:skquinn at rushpost.com>> wrote:
>
> On 10/18/20 16:04, Oliver Simmons wrote:
> > Doing this would make over 3M objects have their date updated to the
> > present, when the last meaningful change may have been over 5 years ago.
> > It creates the illusion of data being up-to-date when all that was
> > changed was a tag key.
>
> +1
>
> In addition to this, it increases revision and changeset counts needlessly.
>
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