[Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

[Paul Norman]

> From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:neroute2 at gmail.com]
> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings
> 
> On 10/20/2011 10:56 AM, Paul Norman wrote:
> >> From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:neroute2 at gmail.com]
> >> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings
> >>
> >> On 10/19/2011 9:31 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
> >>> He has a history in Canada of deleting data in the same manner
> >>
> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/50623496/history
> >> Are you sure you're not talking about yourself?
> >
> > The consensus on talk-ca@ was that NHS=* did not belong in OSM for a
> > variety of reasons.
> > Basically, it doesn't even correspond to a funding category.
> 
> So are you saying that a few mappers can decide that a valid tag cannot
> be used in their area? What if I decided to remove all local maxspeeds
> because nobody follows them?

No one outside of Canada would tag a road as belonging to the Canadian
National Highway System. You are raising a strawman argument by comparing it
to maxspeed, which is used in more than one country. In any case, this is
not the appropriate list to engage in an extended discussion as to if a
Canadian government classification has any value for OSM and should not
distract from the other points raised in this thread.