[OSM-talk] Fixme: A proposal

[Richard Fairhurst]

Pieren wrote:
> More in general, I don't like mappers adding manually tons of 
> 'FIXME' tags because they don't know or remember or are too 
> lazy to check again. This a way to say 'pff, I'm tired now. So 
> please, the next person checking this area, finish my work in 
> priority". If you don't know, then just sh*t *p.
> This tag is only really acceptable as a temporary personal 
> reminder.

Nonsense.

If I'm going for a 12-mile country walk, as Anna and I did on Sunday, I'll
see other footpaths branching off along the way. I guess there's three
things I could do.

a) Ooh! Look! New footpath! Let's turn right and follow it. Yes, I know it
won't get us to where we were going to go. Yes, I know we'll end up covering
all 98712300 miles of footpath in Britain if we do this. Yes, I know we
won't get home in time for dinner. Yes, I know you've got to go to work
tomorrow. Yes, I will expect my divorce papers in the post.

b) Ignore it. LALALALALA I didn't see that footpath. What footpath? There
was no footpath. If someone wants to come back to this area and survey a
missing footpath or two, well, they can guess where they might be. Stuff
'em. Mappers should suffer like I had to back in 2005 when we had a Java
applet that took 27 minutes to add one node. Tsk, the kids of today.

c) Add a short stub and "fixme=incomplete". That way, if someone else is
planning a nice country walk in the area, they can try to follow that
footpath (hey, maybe it joins up with the fixme a mile to the north) rather
than the one that's already mapped.

So I'll go for (a), obviously, because I don't want to be seen as "lazy" in
the eyes of the awesome talk@ mailing list.

I'm guessing you're not married, are you, Pieren?

Richard



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