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

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 7:22 PM Jarek Piórkowski <jarek at piorkowski.ca>
wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 20:16, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Why in English? Bundesstraße is a broadly accepted classification
> terminology, so is autostrada. If you want to do things for
> consistency sake, there are the accepted OSM-British-English names.
>

What I'm saying is highway=bundesstraße could be acceptable, but
straße=bundestraße wouldn't be.  Mostly so way type objects with highway=*
are still potentially routable.
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