[Talk-GB] addr:place cleanup process

[David Woolley]

On 15/01/2022 14:49, Colin Smale wrote:
> Are you now suggesting that we let go of that premise, and allow tags to 
> have arbitrary names (sequence numbers? UUIDs?), on the grounds that the 
> UI can always fix it up for the user?

Most of the world doesn't have UK English as their first language, so 
they have to do that anyway.  In any case, some tag names in OSM aren't 
correct UK English, e.g whilst footway has basically the same meaning as 
the US English sidewalk, it has a broader meaning in OSM, and OSM has 
tags using the US English, sidewalk, rather using footway, in its 
correct UK sense.