[OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

[Jonathan Bennett]

On 26/02/2015 08:43, Andreas Labres wrote:
> This confirmation of course could be automated: show the user the
> object with the tags on some areal imagery background and she/he can decide (in
> most cases, I'd say).

No -- the aerial imagery could be out of date, and it may not be
possible to tell if the problem has been fixed (or even existed in the
first place) *only* from aerial images. Confirmation by survey would
reliable.

If the "problem" is in an area where there's no-one to survey, then so
what? Fixmes don't show up on any end-user (as opposed to mapping QA)
rendering, they don't mess up routing, they don't affect geocoding or
have any other negative consequences for consumers of the data. So just
leave them be until someone can get to the area to survey.

J.