[OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

[Malcolm Herring]

On 25/02/2015 07:01, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>     I think in many cases the proper action to perform on an object with
> a FIXME tag that has "a low chance of ever getting addressed" is deletion.

+1

Though just as blind mechanical imports should not be done, so blind 
mechanical deletes should also not be done. There are some 11000 
"seamark:fixme=please_fix_position" objects that are from just such an 
import that was done over 4 years ago. I have been slowly working my way 
through these and have found that there are many that have been moved, 
but the fixme tag has not been removed. Here I remove the tag. On the 
others I check to see if there is any recent active editing of these 
objects nearby - if so, I leave them untouched. Only in areas where no 
such activity is evident, do I perform a mass delete.

If encouraged by the community, I will speed up this process, though at 
a measured pace so as to not overload the seamark renderer.