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

[Niels Elgaard Larsen]

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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