[Talk-us] Highway Tagging Consensus to Improve OSM (and address some of 41 latitude's concerns)

[Mike N.]

> That's not what I'm trying to do, because I don't see the point in
> trying to do that.  There are much better places for me to get maps in
> the present.  OSM, to me at least, is about the data, and how it can
> be used in the future.  Especially in the United States.

  Keep in mind that there are already people using US OSM data in real 
applications.    By all means, let's move forward, but not burn consumers by 
removing ref* or name* tags to force them to change.   Otherwise we will 
just be laboring like monks to produce a mountain of pure XML that no one 
cares about because it's to difficult to catch a moving specification that 
has no concern for compatibility.