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

[Michael Reichert]

Hi Mateusz,

Am 02.07.2018 um 19:42 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny:
> 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.

There are 177,152 FIXME and 1,216,043 fixme according to Taginfo. I did
not have a closer look on the average age of FIXMEs and fixmes.

What's the benefit in this mechanical edit? It just sets the
last_modified attribute to a recent date and data consumers, mappers and
QA tools get the impression that the object is not old.

FIXME should make alarm bells ring in validator tools because its key
only contains uppercase characters.

If you want to search for uses of FIXME, use the OSM Inspector. It
supports FIXME case-insensitive for about ten years now (even our new
C++ implementation does). It does not matter if you write FiXmE, fIXMe
or FixmE. Btw, todo=* (lower case only) is also supported.

http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=tagging&lon=8.48813&lat=49.06482&zoom=11&overlays=fixmes_on_nodes,fixmes_on_ways

Fixmes tend to become the new trash piles in our streets. Lets go out
and fix them (yeah, the map is quite/too full of them).

I would love to see your energy going into a tool to bring OSM notes and
fixmes together and making mappers to get them into their

Best regards

Michael

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