[OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

[moltonel 3x Combo]

On 25/02/2015, sly (sylvain letuffe) <liste2 at letuffe.org> wrote:
> I do also agree with Frederic, imports of external data not conflated added
> with some "fixme=please fix my bad import by surveying it on the ground"
> should be remove alltogether. Good integration should be done at import time
> and should'nt rely on others by spamming the fixmes.

An import that tagged its object with fixmes is arguably a bad quality
import. But mass-removing that import's fixmes (assuming those fixmes
carry usefull info) degrades data quality further. Two bads don't make
a good.

If you're talking about fixmes that don't carry usefull info, then it
doesn't matter wether they were created by imports or not.

> For all the other manually entered fixme, a lot of care and discussion
> should be performed before attempting anything automatically.
> Even the rather useless "fixme=yes" should be handeled with care. The mapper
> might have added information that he knows to be perfectible and wanted to
> enlight that.

My guess is that manually-entered fixmes will not lend themselves to
automated fixing at all. You'd spend more time fixing your script's
heuristics than you'd spend manually doing the fixes.