May I remind my dear mapper friends, that tags are just that: tags. From the database point of view these are just couples of arbitrarily chosen, character strings. OSM uses a convention to make it easier to memorize these strings by using GB-English terms for them, but, I repeat that is just a convention to help our human brain facilities. If you were to replace the string "man_made" at every occurrence in the database and in all programs that use the database with "3rgnJI)oò-" this would make no difference to OSM (provided you use different strings for different keys/values), but it would make a huge differnce to the work of inserting/correcting/consulting data by human beings. In addition, replacing one string with another string in all occurrences in OSM, apart from creating completely unnecessary new versiones of the objects, is trivial. Changing all products that make use of these data will be an enormous amount of work. And all this effort achieve what?
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 14:22, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 09:38, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> 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. >> > > Hahahaha. That would resolve "man made." By replacing "made." > > >> 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. >> > > It only needs a little re-tagging. Simple. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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