[HOT] Sharing Fixme tags with Humanitarian Organizations

[Andrew Buck]

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I have been talking to various aid organizations about how we can better
coordinate our remote mappers with their field teams.  One of the ideas
discussed was the issue of 'fixme' tags.  Currently we have a lot of
things marked 'fixme' that can easily be queried with tools like
overpass turbo.  The idea was floated of passing information from these
fixme tags on to their ground teams for confirmation on things we are
not sure about that might be useful.

We currently have about 6000 fixme's in the typhoon region where we are
activated.  We should come up with some system of figuring out which of
these would be relevant to ground teams and then work out a procedure
for passing that on.  My suggestion is to come up with some other extra
tagging scheme to go through the fixme's and tag them with an extra tag
about what needs to be done to resolve them (ground survey, look up
information online, etc) so that we can query for the ones that need a
ground survey and then pass on just that subset to the ground teams.

If people could brainstorm about this a bit and come up with some more
concrete tagging suggestions I would appreciate it.  To get you started,
here is an overpass query for the fixme's in the area we are working on
now.  You can see the bulk of them are towns with approximate locations
or unsure names, but others have questions that could be answered by
someone on the ground.

http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1sM

Please give this some thought and then share your ideas.  Hopefully we
can come up with something useful.

- -AndrewBuck
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