Hi, Paul Johnson wrote:
So how would that bring us closer to having global consistency, since the scope of OSM is worldwide?
It is a common misconception that OSM should have globally consistent tagging standards since OSM is a world-wide project.
If someone were to really demand that, the project would come to a screeching halt and we'd have to set up our own version of United Nations bureaucracy and have them debate for 20 years before we can continue.
It is very well possible that the highway situation in Chile demands a different tagging approach than that in California, and there's no problem with that; we just tag it differently and that's it. In the long run maybe Chileans need their own rendering rules to make things look right for them, but that's no big deal.
You can of course do what you like in the US but I would not be surprised if some states had different kinks in their road network system that would demand a slightly different approach to tagging. And that wouldn't be a big deal. Diversity is one of OSM's strengths, not a weakness.
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