[OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

[John F. Eldredge]

I agree. In most cases, a FIXME should be left until someone on-site can 
verify what is correct.

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On February 26, 2015 3:49:58 AM Jonathan Bennett <jonobennett at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 No -- the aerial imagery could be out of date, and it may not be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.
>
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