[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Increase may key and value max length (#2025)

[Tobias Zwick]

Okay, so I see there are two concerns in this thread about changing this:
1. will break applications that work with OSM data to different amounts
2. the general notion that tags should be short and/or not contain text or long structured data

Regarding point 1, if it really is a major problem the clear answer to that is API versioning. API 0.6 will then simply not return any keys or values longer than 255 characters, API 0.7 will. Not sure if it is currently arranged to be able to deploy several API versions in parallel, but the URI scheme certainly looks like it was alloted for that use case.

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