[OSM-talk] Fixme: A proposal

[Erik Johansson]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:29 AM, John Harvey <john at johnharveyphoto.com> wrote:
>  from time to time I find "bugs" with planet.osm that I would like to see fixed.

If you can detect them automatically and visualize so that other can
fix them then it's a wonderful idea. You example categories seem to be
perfectly suitable for OSMI like services.. But please tell us more
about it.


> We currently have roughly 700,000 nodes/ways/relations marked with FixMe.
> There isn't a lot of structure here, and I suspect a lot of these issues
> aren't moving.  I propose we add a layer of structure.  Would could
> categorize bugs into categories.  For instance:

So I took 103 entries that only occurred once from
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/FIXME,

40 fixmes I don't understand (for different reasons, 20% where in english)
3 tagging: unsure about the right tags for this object
3 Topology (Connect this to that)
57 Survey
    - road geometry incomplete or need GPS fix for object (22 entries
about this, i.e 50%)
    - more tags (name/opening_hours/toll fee)
    - name
    - control to see that the tags are correct for the whole road.


For me the only categories I use are fixme=survey and fixme=tagging,
they are different in the way that armchair mappers could help with
tagging suggestions, but there really is nothing to do about survey
except to go out and map. I'm guessing categories would help when you
write those fixmes, and to make it faster to understand them.

Even though free text is nice it's not easy to understand all the time.

/Emj