[Talk-us] Key:man_made... Outdated language?
Russ Nelson
nelson at crynwr.com
Sat Mar 11 23:14:18 UTC 2017
Richard Fairhurst writes:
> Joshua Houston wrote:
> > It occurred to me that "man_made" is an outdated term that should be
> > phased out from OpenStreetMap language.
>
> FWIW, the lingua franca of OSM tagging is British English: so, colour rather
> than color, and so on.
>
> man_made is possibly not too different. I can see how it might sound jarring
> to US ears
Some of us remember that women are humans, too.
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