[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - value 'basic_network' for keys 'network:type', 'lcn' and 'lwn'

[stevea]

As I continue to read / listen / participate, this slowly becomes slightly more clear.  I especially thank JochenB for pointing me to the German-language forum (.osm.org).  Mechanical natural language translation isn't perfect, but in 2021 it goes a long way and I thank everybody for their accommodation to either English (here, in some wiki...) or German (for me, I need to machine-translate, but that's OK).

Still, the many subtle nuances that I see (in the forum and in the proposal, which I now understand will be rewritten to better articulate with more clarity what has been discussed here; thank you) remain difficult for me to fully understand, as we (in the USA) do not have anywhere near this complexity in what we need to express in OSM tagging for bicycle (and walking) routes / networks.  I certainly do appreciate that the situation is (at least) "as complex as it is described by Germans in Germany" but please be aware of these wide cultural differences and that most people in the USA, including those quite familiar with OSM and bicycle route / network tagging (me, many others...) are finding what needs to be expressed in these new proposed tags rather overwhelming.  I'll continue to "eat it one bite at a time" and I'm sure that with time I (and others not in Germany) can better "digest" this proposal.  I certainly do look forward to the clarity that JochenB intends to add to the proposal from comments here on this mailing list, that really will help.  Thanks in advance for those improvements.

Still, it seems odd that tagging this rich will likely get used only in Germany; that makes me think that the rest of the world has done something wrong as Germany thinks it is getting it right with a rather technically complex proposal.  Am I the only one who finds this unusual or unsettling:  that "something about our transportation networks" is so highly complex that it is only applicable in one particular part of the world?  Maybe this is an example of a "less developed world" getting a glimpse of a "more developed world" (even as I consider the USA to be relatively well-developed, yet I know we have our serious shortcomings and certain "lack of development" here in the USA).

Keep up the good communication, everybody!

SteveA