[OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

Jonathan Bennett jonobennett at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 17:57:20 UTC 2015


On 25/02/2015 17:23, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> Hold on, you may have misunderstood.

Actually I think you've misunderstood:

You've said these are Junk Tags, and I think everyone has agreed with
you on that. However people have also pointed out that they are probably
attached to Junk Data.

This means deleting the tags mechanically won't do anything to solve the
problem of junk data, only make it harder to find for the average
mapper. Therefore we shouldn't mechanically delete any tags, because the
net result will be to make OSM *as a whole* worse.

Hopefully that makes sense to you.

J.



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