[OSM-talk] Fixme: A proposal

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2011/10/4 John Harvey <john at johnharveyphoto.com>:
> Looking at the most frequent tags (the numbers are Total, #on Nodes, #on
> Ways, #on Relations):
>
>    1                fixme =          set better denotation (  242623,
>  242622,       1,       0)
>    2                fixme =                   check import (   99240,
>  15,   99221,       4)
>    3                fixme = Revisar: este punto fue creado por importación
> directa (   49732,   49732,       0,       0)
>    9                fixme = Dato importato CTR Veneto. Vericare sul campo
> fence_type=* (   17413,       0,   17413,       0)
>   10                fixme =                   not_reviewed (   14592,
> 14516,      76,       0)


> The point is, 800,000 fixme's are difficult heap.  Fixme's catagorized
> allows you to divide and conquer or specialize to fixes.


There are so many of them because some people poor them automatically
in and expect human mappers to fix them (the first one is an automated
edit which followed a discussion on talk-de about trees and the other
top values are from imports). Most of us are not waiting for someone
to import lots of bugs so we can then fix them. I mostly go away if a
meet such an imported mess, while I contact the mapper and try to
explain when I see problems from an edit that someone probably less
experienced has made.

Please stop importing if you are not able to fix the problems yourself
or with your local community.

cheers,
Martin