Brian Sperlongano

My specific discomfort is in positioning Americana to be the first tool that codifies a particular network scheme, in cases where the network scheme was probably just invented on a...

I'm not sure whether or not we could make that work for shields, since we generate them in code. That's something we can revisit once somebody understands how SDF icons...

Good point on the coloring. Also, if there's a legitimate use case for multicolored icons, the built-in halo in the SVG remains an option for that.

The issue is that shields are drawn with a common baseline for the entire string, and drawn vertically aligned to the bottom of the baseline, like so: 

Blocked by openmaptiles/openmaptiles#1296. OpenMapTiles does not currently support `boundary=aboriginal_lands`

I don't really have an opinion on how the language dialects are structured. There are certainly examples of words that mean one thing in en_GB and something else in en_US,...

> _pavement_ comes to mind. That's the usually paved walk for pedestrians at the side of the street in British English. And in American English, it is the main part...

What the heck is a maneuvering area?

Something like "paved service area" would probably get the idea across (assuming it's paved), but I think fundamentally we don't really have a word for this.

In addition, * `sidewalk=no` is the tagging used by Vespucci * `sidewalk=no` is the tagging used by StreetComplete (which was recently updated in streetcomplete/StreetComplete#3194). Note that the prior use of...