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

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Tue Jul 3 09:23:04 UTC 2018


3. Lipiec 2018 10:36 od mdeen at xs4all.nl <mailto:mdeen at xs4all.nl>:


> What will prevent users from adding FIXME tags in the future?




Nothing, users may add any tags. It is impossible to change that by edits.


 

> What happens to the tools that read FIXME tags in the meanwhile?




Tools that process both FIXME and fixme will be unaffected. 


Tools that process solely FIXME are broken already.

 


> I just tried, JOSM hapilly accept fixme and FIXME on the same node.
> This edit has not much use when that remains the case.
>




JOSM allows to add any tags. For example one may add dhhs=487847dhh tag using JOSM.

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