[OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

Bryce Nesbitt bryce2 at obviously.com
Fri Feb 27 00:12:03 UTC 2015


On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am strongly in this camp. I have not seen any actual harm or problem
> presented for 1.3 million fixme tags yet. But there is the potential for
> problems if removed.
> Even fixme=yes tags convey information: Someone felt something was in
> question about that node/way/polygon. That is not insignificant information.


At no point has a proposal been made to remove fixme=yes.

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As for harm, any user of a tool that shows fixme tags:
http://keepright.ipax.at/report_map.php?zoom=12&lat=39.95356&lon=-75.12364
Is directing energy to both useful fixme tags, and fixme tags that at best
are markers
of a poorly considered import.  A bulk purge cold save a lot of time.

I do encourage people to remove fixme keys when they edit: many times the
underlying problem gets fixed, but the fixme tag stays.
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