[Tagging] [Talk-us] Trunk VS primary,

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 6:57 PM Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > Being able to speak each country's highway lingua franca would make it a
> lot easier for OSM to become the Rosetta Stone of maps simply from ease of
> classification.
>
> That would mean using "jalan=provinsi" instead of "highway=primary" in
> Indonesia, so any global map service (like opencyclemap.org) would
> need to interpret all these tags from different languages. If you
> limit this to just official languages there would be several hundred
> to translate, but there are over 1500 languages with a written
> language currently: I don't see why we would limit things to just
> official languages.
>

I'm not arguing in favor of a change in language for key name.  But the
local broadly accepted classification terminology (preferably in English
for consistency sake) for the value.
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