None of the “noname” tagging proposals was ever “accepted” so using the validate:* schema is just as valid as what I’m currently supporting. There is no reason I can’t support this tagging variant going forward and probably I will.

Wrt *_link: I have no strong feelings about this, and will probably move that to the “orange” might have a nome or might not category.

The problem with both “nosurface” and “nospeed” that that there is no global consensus if they are really needed. For example in Western Europe you would always assume surface asphalt unless specified otherwise, similar with speed limits where you would assume the national max speeds (for the road type and location) for roads that don’t have maxspeed tagged.

As the blog post says

red: major and minor roads, service with service=alley without name or ref tag

and it has been that way since day one.

And yes you are quite correct, there are masses of roads in France that should have name or ref tags and don’t.

That is a bit of a tricky question.

The main reason that the overlay supports unsigned and noname tags is to avoid mappers constantly resurveying the same roads (false positive suppression). If you live in an area that normaly doesn’t have street names the overlay doesn’t really make a lot of sense and insofar it is not necessary to weed out the false positives anyway.

Bitte in der Schweiz -keine- maxspeed Einträge machen, die Sache ist rechtlich klar und maxspeed voll redundant. Wir müssen ja nicht jeden Blödsinn unserer nördlichen Nachbarn mitmachen.