[Osmf-talk] Tagging standards

[Jeffrey Friedl]

> might make it absolutely appropriate for the same tag to have slightly differing meanings in different countries.

Japan has local rules that _require_ a very rough mountain path near me, impassable by any vehicle and challenging for a fit person to trek by foot, to be tagged "highway=secondary".  To me this seems simply wrong and harmful to the goals of OSM.

To me, this is well beyond "slightly different", and I wish OSM had some kind of guidelines that would disallow Japan from creating rules like this.
    Jeffrey