Good point Martin. Someone else has suggested artificial as another alternative. I'm open to all feedback at this stage and happy if anyone wants to add onto the proposal the pros and cons of that's allowed.
Rob On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, 7:38 pm Martin Koppenhoefer, <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 15. Oct 2020, at 02:57, Robert Delmenico <rob...@rtbk.com.au> wrote: > > > > I also understand that generally speaking the use of man_made is > commonly accepted as a gender neutral term, but in reality it has been > adapted that way due to past practices of gender bias. > > > I fear in „human“ there is still a man, even in every woman there‘s a man, > as in female there is a male. Overall it looks as if English is not > suitable for gender neutral language, everything refers back to men. I > propose to use German as the language for tags. > It might look like an impossible endeavor at first glance to retag those > millions or billions of objects, but if you dig deeper you will find that > many tags are already more German than English, so ultimately it wouldn’t > be as much change as it may sound initially. > > Cheers Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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