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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Yes, latest update date can be a hint
but treating it is as an argument to avoid
making an edit is really weird to me.
19 paź 2020, 14:51 od tagging at openstreetmap.org:

> I'm in no way supporting the proposal, but this argument of 'it'll    make the entities look fully up to date" is illogical. If taken to    it's conclusion, nothing will ever be update again.
>  
>  It's false to think that just because an entity was amended    yesterday, it means it's up to date:
>  If a typo in a road's name is amended, but the road is left    incorrectly tagged as 'tertiary' instead of 'primary' it's not up to    date.
>  
>  Likewise an entity previously amended 10 years ago doesn't mean it's    inaccurate.
>  
>  DaveF
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> On 18/10/2020 22:04, Oliver Simmons      wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, 22:02            Graeme Fitzpatrick, <>> graemefitz1 at gmail.com>> >            wrote:
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>>> On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at                  20:39, Rory McCann <>>> rory at technomancy.org>>> >                  wrote:
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>>>> *definitely* not                  something one does auomatically.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But would it be so impossible? (Not suggesting that                  it should actually be done!) 
>>>
>>> Couldn't a bot be set to simply find all cases of                  man_made=, regardless of what it is, & change them                  to human_made=, similar to using Find & Replace in                  a Word document?
>>>
>>> & no, as you can see, I don't understand the                  technicalities behind it all, so please be gentle with                  explaining that I'm an idiot! :-)
>>>
>>> Thanks 
>>>
>>> Graeme
>>>
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