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 It occurred to me that "man_made" is an outdated term that should be 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. British English does of course have different cultural assumptions to American English. As an example in the opposite direction, I remain genuinely astonished that there is a US movement called "GeoLadies". Here in Britain, if you described any woman under 80 as a "lady", you would probably be expecting a slap; it's generally a patronising and slightly pejorative word with connotations of passivity and indolence, and outside of those parts of London influenced by the US, I don't see that it's been reclaimed. That isn't to say that GeoLadies is objectively wrong: it isn't wrong in the slightest. Just that, inevitably, some cultural references fall differently in different parts of the world. man_made is possibly not too different. I can see how it might sound jarring to US ears but it's not something at which anyone would bat an eyelid in Britain. (And of course, going to the country where OSM has historically been strongest, "man" is a neutral pronoun in German.) Nothing is going to be entirely consistent across all the cultures in which OSM is used. Of course, there is a great irony in that this thread has been populated by people called Joshua, Joel, Ian, Brian, Harald, Mike, Frederik, Blake, Clifford, Kevin, and Richard, so maybe we should shut the heck up and let some women have their say. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Key-man-made-Outdated-language-tp5892860p5892877.html Sent from the USA mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
