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

[Paul Allen]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 14:04, Dave F via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
wrote:

I mean, *everything* is either man made or natural.
>

Unless you want to argue that humans are supernatural or unnatural,
humans are natural.  Therefore anything humans make is natural,
just as beaver dams and wasps' nests are natural.

If you wish to argue that humans are a special exception then
everything we make is man_made, so buildings, bridges, parks,
gardens, etc. is man_made.

OSM tagging is not a good candidate for cladistic taxonomy.  There
is too much multiple inheritance to even consider that type of
taxonomy.  Houses are buildings, which are man-made, houses
have walls and walls are built, so man_made=house and building=wall
Except humans build walls, so man_made=wall.


>   We really should come up with more specific, accurate key tags.
>

Perhaps in some cases.  Where such need arises it happens, such as
with healthcare.

On balance, moving to human_made or artificial is a lot of pain without
any gain whatsoever with regard to map accuracy in order to appease
the feelings of those who do not understand etymology.  Are we
to next propose persontoric=* because those who do not understand
etymology object to a supposed gender bias in "historic"?

That the proposer profusely thanks those who put forward
arguments against the change whilst apparently ignoring
those arguments does nothing to persuade me of the
merits of his/her case.  It smacks of the so-called
"non-confrontational" tactics that might better be
called "passive confrontational."

-- 
Paul
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