[Talk-us] Key:man_made... Outdated language?

[Mike N]

On 3/10/2017 4:27 PM, Joshua Houston wrote:
> It occurred to me that "man_made" is an outdated term that should be
> phased out from OpenStreetMap language.

   Changing any long-established tag will have long lasting ripple 
effects in the many data consumers.   Any such tag migration would need 
to have a high degree of value in the change to justify the change.

   In general, tags are just a token and are increasingly hidden by 
editors and not seen by mappers unless they prefer to create tag values 
manually.