[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - h==highway

[PAA]

Request for comments on creating the key:h and making it synonymous with
key:highway. As i understand things, this has four huge benefits:
-reduce data entry time when editing OSM (e.g. 6/7ths less characters to
type)
-reduce data entry errors when editing OSM (current obvious errors from
tagwatch europe: highlight, hightway, highwaY, highwat, higwhway, and the
champion, higway, with 1478 entries)
-reduce OSM data storage space (over 6M highways just from
http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Europe/En/tags.html; simple naive estimate 6M*6
bytes=36MBytes uncompressed data reduction)
-reduce bandwidth for transfers to/from OSM

What do you think?

Cheers,
P
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