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

[Maarten Deen]

On 2018-07-03 09:49, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:

> Now that I know about existence of FIXME tag I can add support for it
> in my tools at 1% of cost of going through mechanical edit.
> 
> The entire point is not to support may particular usecase, the point
> is to save people in future from spending time on handling tag 
> duplication.

What will prevent users from adding FIXME tags in the future? Do you 
propose to redo this mechanical edit periodically? What happens to the 
tools that read FIXME tags in the meanwhile?

I can't find anything on case for the key, but general concensus is that 
it should be in lowercase (which makes sense), but IMHO tools should be 
liberal in what they accept as input, so I would always search case 
insensitive if I were to look for something.

IMHO before we do this edit (which in my eyes should be unneccessary), 
we should have concensus on the case of the FIXME tag in OSM (and indeed 
any tag) and have all editors adehere to that standard. I just tried, 
JOSM hapilly accept fixme and FIXME on the same node.
This edit has not much use when that remains the case.

Regards,
Maarten