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<p><font face="Verdana">I agree, didn't say it is a violation (yet).</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">Combinations of the suspicious keys:</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">road_name = <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/road_name#combinations">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/road_name#combinations</a><br>
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<p><font face="Verdana">road = <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/road#combinations">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/road#combinations</a><br>
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<p><font face="Verdana">All seem to be in my opinion incorrect use
and appeared massively in a very short time.</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/03/2021 21:27, Pierre Béland
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objects references with road=*. But we need to know what
type of object they are describing. This tag can be the main
tag that wants to refer to roads, or this can be a secondary
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Look for example at <a
href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2209159511"
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<div>For the Taginfo chronology, the map shows the
distribution and we see a lot of objects with road=* in
Germany. Suspecting more of these, <br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Below a short analysis
with Overpass queries to compare usage for nodes and ways
comparing part of Europe with part of Africa. In Germany,
we observe that the tag <span> "historic": "milestone" is
often used on nodes with road=Road name. In Africa, we
find more ways that probably refer to highways.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">West Europe, 187 nodes <a
href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/14vb" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/14vb</a> <span
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ways <a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/14vc"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/14vc</a>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Africa, 4
nodes <a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/14vf"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/14vf</a>
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ways <a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/14ve"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/14ve</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">As you see, we need deeper
analysis to find where this spike comes from.<br>
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href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/road#chronology"
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<p><font face="Verdana">Just the key "road=*", search
for road in Taginfo tab KEY.<br clear="none">
In Taginfo I searched for the key, got a long list
with all kinds of keys containing the word "road",
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<p><font face="Verdana">If you go to chronology tab
you see the spikes very clearly.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">Greetings,</font></p>
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