[OSM-talk] Suggestion more complete mapping verifactiion

Alex S. maps at swavely.com
Sat Sep 22 01:01:16 BST 2007


Bruce Cowan wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 18:18 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
>> [..]  or named as FIXME [..]
>> (hopefully maplint or the validator plugin would flag it up to them to
>> review).
> 
> This practice of naming roads FIXME is evil IMHO. Introducing errors in
> the database to see where work needs done is not a good idea. Any cases
> of FIXME on roads near where I live have been removed.

The validator JOSM plugin currently will flag "name=FIXME" ways, but 
will not flag my preferred method, which would be to tag like 
"fixme=note here"  (as in "fixme=need to find the street name")





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