Amanda, This would be the right place to discuss tagging-related topics like the one you're raising.
Let me start by saying that it is not straightforward at all to just change an established convention: not only would we need to change every occurence of this tag in the database, we'd also need to change many of the tools that depend on this convention being in place (think of editors that have presets for man_made=*, but there's more), and maybe most importantly, all mappers would need to relearn the convention which would lead to much confusion. So there would have to be a really, really compelling reason to change something that is a well-established convention (i.e. something that is listed on the Map Features page[1]). Secondly, man-made is defined as something created by humans, be they male or female. What is your argument for proposing this change? Martijn [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Amanda <amanda...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello! > > new here. don't know if it's the right place to address this issue, sorry if > i'm mistaken.. > > my suggestion is: MAN MADE should be called HUMAN MADE > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- martijn van exel geospatial omnivore 1109 1st ave #2 salt lake city, ut 84103 801-550-5815 http://oegeo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
