[OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

James james2432 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 2 17:49:17 UTC 2018


are there any overlap with FIXME and fixme as in an object tagged with
both? Is it possible or the osm API considers them the same(case
insensitive)?

If there are no overlaps I dont see an issue tagging this the proper way

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018, 1:44 PM Mateusz Konieczny, <matkoniecz at tutanota.com>
wrote:

> fixme tag is a standard way to mark fixmes.
> Editors wishing to finish mapping in their area would (directly or
> indirectly, for example using JOSM) look through objects tagged with
> fixme tags.
>
> FIXME tag is an unexpected way to mark fixmes, retagging this duplicate to
> fixme key would improve tagging without any information loss.
>
> It would make development of QA tools easier as authors would not need to
> discover and implement support for this duplicated key.
>
> Between X and Y objects are expected to be edited. See
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/FIXME#map for a
> geographic distribution.
>
> Changeset would be split into small areas to avoid continent-sized
> bounding boxes. As this tag may be on extremely large objects (for example
> relations representing long routes) it may be unavoidable to make some
> edits with very large bounding boxes.
>
> For documentation page see
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/moving_FIXME_to_fixme
> For documentation of my previous proposals (including both proposals
> that failed to be approved and approved ones) see
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account
>
> Please comment - especially if there are any problems with this idea.
> Please also comment if you support this edit, in case of no response
> at all edit will not be made as there would be no evidence that
> this idea is supported.
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