[OSM-dev] new fixme-like check for keepright.ipax.at and alike

[Jochen Topf]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:10:54PM +0100, Harald Kleiner wrote:
> So to recapitulate this topic it seems consensus to me that using 
> name=tbd or ref=tbd
> is undesirable and I can easily integrage it in my fixme-check to 
> highlight spots where this tagging has been used

The problem is: If you add a check for name=tbd etc. to your script we
are running into exactly the problem I have been describing, namely
People *will* use it, because you script so handily highlightes those
cases which is what they want. But you will only check for "tbd",
somebody else uses "unknown" instead and asks you to add this to your
script also ad infinitum...

I am guilty of this myself, I added a check for "anything=*FIXME*" to
OSM Inspector and now ask myself whether I should have done this. Our
checks help people remove those cases from the tags but they also
encourage more and more people to actually uses those special values.

I don't known how to solve this... :-(

Jochen
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