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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/10/2019 10:53, Mateusz Konieczny
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<div style="16px" text-align="left">21 Oct 2019, 11:46 by
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<div>Hi everyone<br>
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<div>So far according tothe taginfo script we've managed to
ADD 415 fixmes and remove 84 FIXMEs. I don't have data yet
on OSM Notes. Don't know what's going on here with the
increase when the aim of the project is to reduce the
numbers by fixing the issues indicated nad thereby improve
the qualit yof the data.<br>
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<div style="16px" text-align="left">In my typical mapping surveys,
even targeted at fixing fixmes and closing notes I often add
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<p>Same here. To add to what Mateusz has already said, all notes
and fixmes are not alike though - what was originally one note
"all the shops are missing here" might become two for two bits of
minor details that need checking, after adding all the rest.<br>
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<div style="16px" text-align="left">I would also compare with
previous months - maybe previously people were adding say 400
fixmes/month<br>
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<p>I don't have data for the whole UK, but do have numbers for "OSM
notes" and "fixme tags" for a couple of areas going back at least
a couple of years. If people are interested I could pull the
numbers together.<br>
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<div>Should we be converting fixmes to OSM Notes -will this
give the occasional mapper more chance of seeing them and
adding detail or fixing them?<br>
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<p>Please no! We already see examples of people closing notes
because they don't want them to "clutter them map" and there have
been "notes wars" in a couple of places around the world.<br>
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<p>A significant number (probably most?) OSM notes and fixme tags
need local knowledge or an on-the-ground survey, so an occasional
mapper simply isn't going to be able to resolve them. A mapper
who is visiting somewhere new and actively wants to look for OSM
notes and fixme tags can do that already, however they are
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<p>Where it probably isn't worth adding fixme tags would be just
drawing attention to some other missing data. For example, a few
years ago every house in Reading* had "fixme=add precise address"
on it, which meant that to get a useful list of things that needed
fixing there you had to explicitly filter those out to get a list,
and then add one more item "collect housenumbers". The same issue
with OSM notes would be even more of a problem given that OSM
notes are more visible than fixme tags.<br>
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<p>Andy</p>
<p>* See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/98977855/history">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/98977855/history</a> for an
example. It's worth noting that the house numbers and later
postcodes did get added - you'd need to ask the person who did
that whether the "fixme" tag was a factor here. They certainly
deserve a big pat on the back for adding all that data.<br>
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