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<p>That will for sure not work. There are lots of downstream data processors, and you need to look at this change end-to-end - starting with osmosis for the replication, tools like osmium that have string lengths restrictions and special size optimizations in place, many different editors assuming certain size limits, ...</p>
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<p>Oh to be sure, I don't think this will actually ever happen.  But if it did, iD would be fine with it.</p>

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