[Tagging] Better term for unisex
Amanda McCann
amanda at technomancy.org
Mon Oct 10 17:37:33 UTC 2022
On Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:05 +02:00, Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com> wrote:
> The proposal currently states:
>> Meaning of the unisex <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:unisex>=yes is currently unclear:
>>
>> * gender neutral facility (as the "unisex" term in English); or
>> * facility that accessible for men and women, either segregated or not.
> I do not understand what is unclear. The term unisex is well
> understood among English speakers to mean "gender neutral".
I'm a native English speaker, and I agree! I also wrote that part of the wiki (years ago). I think some non-native speakers treated `unisex=yes` as meaning “gender segregated but male & female are available”, i.e. read that paragraph as “some OSMers might have been wrong, and we don't know how many unisex=yes/no tags in OSM were affected by the misunderstanding”
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Amanda
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