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

Robert Delmenico robert at rtbk.com.au
Mon Oct 19 10:37:54 UTC 2020


Nice investigating Nathan,

I would be open to using artificial instead of human_made.


Would it be best to change the proposal or start a second proposal?
Change man_made= to artificial=

Rob


On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 21:14, nathan case <nathancase at outlook.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> A better gender neutral term might be “artificial”, which is already a
> synonym for “man-made” and is already widely used.
>
> 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.
>
> Other sources:
> https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/gender-inclusive-language/
>
> https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Usage/faq0053.html
> https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/man-made
>
> An issue may arise if artificial is already being used as a tag however.
>
> Best,
>
> Nathan
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