[OSM-talk] Mechanically Cleaning Up FIXME Tags

[SomeoneElse]

On 25/02/2015 08:51, Tobias Knerr wrote:
> On 25.02.2015 02:58, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
>> It is apparent that a number of imports have left tens of thousands of
>> fixme notes that have a low chance of ever getting addressed.  Pick your
>> favorite from the lists above: set␣better␣denotation is my mine.
> That's from a mechanical edit that should never have happened in the
> first place. The edit was basically done in order to establish the
> "denotation" tag for trees, which was almost nonexistent before.
>
> The denotation values were not pulled from an external source, but based
> on guesses of the kind "another tree within x meters => must be a
> cluster of trees". In my opinion, it could make sense to also remove the
> denotation keys on trees with set␣better␣denotation. After all, the
> continuing existence of that fixme shows that no human ever verified these.
>
> I also agree with the general goal to get rid of pointless fixme values.
>

Just for a bit of background on this specific issue, for the lucky 
people who missed out on it last time around, the mechanical edit that 
added those values was discussed here:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2010-September/thread.html#4297

and there's some discussion (a couple of years after the event) on the 
German forum here:

http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=309562

The discussion on the GB list lead to a revert there:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2010-November/010492.html

More comment from the Netherlands:

http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=121302#p121302

Cheers,

Andy