<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=147741" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/tomhughes">@tomhughes</a> : there are a few legitimate <em>geo</em> uses of larger tagvalues, like destination sign text or inscriptions on physical monuments, things like that.  We should have some kind of limit, but it should be larger than varchar(255).</p>
<p>Aside:  I don't think OSM note text is limited by the API or database, and is should be.  Uploading a multi-gigabyte OSM note is left as an exercise for the reader.</p>

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