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

Tom Pfeifer t.pfeifer at computer.org
Tue Jul 3 01:19:28 UTC 2018


On 03.07.2018 01:23, Michael Reichert wrote:
> 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.

This was my first thought as well.

As for mapping, I prefer to see the name of the last editor who changed content,
and not the name of the last bot who just lowercased a key.
In that case I need to dig into the history which is extra work for me.

The proposed edit does not improve data quality a single bit.

Fixmes are to be solved, not to be renamed.

Tom



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