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

[Jason Remillard]

Hi,

I support this edit.

This spring, I was working on changeset validation code and I was quite
surprised to find that FIXME (an invalid key) was so prevalent in the
database. I had to collect a bunch of extra validation changesets with the
FIXME tag present to train the neural network that an all-caps key is bad
unless it is FIXME. As a data consumer, the existence of the tag caused me
many hours of extra work.

Removing the FIXME tag reduces the learning curve for map editors. Going
forward, nobody needs to wonder if FIXME= or fixme= is correct.

All of the editors have single-click access to the full history of the
object, changes to the last modified time or last modified user isn't that
big a deal for experienced editors.

Jason

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 1:42 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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