[OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

[Bryce Nesbitt]

fixme=yes is an interesting one socially.  It's a bit like tiger:reviewed=no

If there's an obvious problem, I might feel confident to fix the issue and
clear the tag out. But for most nodes I might be unsure what's wrong, or
not be confident I know 100% about the object. Thus the fixme=yes sits
there forever, for future generations of mappers to look at, make the same
conclusion, and leave the tag for the next next generation of mapper.

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Tools such as Keepright could sidestep some of the fixme clutter by aging
out older notes.  As a given fixme ages, the percentage chance of it
getting fixed goes down.  With JOSM at least reading the last edit date is
a separate and somewhat slow operation for the mapper.
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