@imagico those are two different things…

One, which you seems to care about, is COLLECTING IDEAS about extra search terms, icons, better translations, extra tags etc. Those are certainly important!

They can currently be contributed via writing in freeform plain English by creating GitHub issue at https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/issues

While creating GitHub account may present some difficulty (and speaking English even bigger one), it is what is already currently available.

If you think that is the high bar, suggestions on alternative (including manpower to manage them) would be welcome.

What @Mateusz is talking about is manpower needed to convert those already existing (in form of GitHub issues) ideas into JSON format usable by id-tagging-schema so users can actually use them (i.e. creating GutHub PRs from GitHub issues).

And it is bottleneck, because more issues get created each month then the pull requests that resolve them. Which means: good ideas are not being implemented, which is a loss.

TL;DR: In other words, creating more ideas without more manpower to implement them is only going to create more frustration from users who get ignored for longer and longer periods of time, and not help at all.

So, yes – both are needed; but the issues without the PRs are useless. Thus, the idea of this particular diary entry seems to be to engage users who are capable to help with PRs.

There are infinitely more problems related to tags in OSM (from discussions, cultural differences, decision making, implementing data consumer support for them, project “kings”, etc. to the fact that we have at least 3 competing machine-readable “standards”: id-tagging-schema /JOSM presets /Vespucci presets, so improvementa in one is wasted effort on others).

But each of them is worthy its own diary entry (and much more) - there is no need that they all be comments on this particular one which tries to make actionable improvement on a small piece of the whole puzzle.

For OsmAnd at least, that seems to be per-county decision, as capability seems to be there.

E.g. Argentina standard maps are more than 700MB in size for whole country, but you can choose to download e.g. just the Mendoza, and that is more acceptable 26MB.

OsmAnd also offers smaller road-only maps (379MB for whole Argentina, or 15MB for Mendoza) if that is enough for you.

So if your country does not offer such subdivisions, it might be simply because no one requested it yet. So you may want to head over to https://github.com/osmandapp/osmand/issues and request it.

Also, OsmAnd allows you to export and import maps, so perhaps local communities could organize to download the maps once from the Internet and then share them locally among themselves.