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

[Tobias Knerr]

On 03.07.2018 10:28, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Don't forget that new FIXMEs will continue to appear all the time.

They will, but at a lower rate. Mappers often look at existing tagging
to find out how things should be tagged. This is further reinforced by
tools such as JOSM's autocompletion. Thus, I believe the current dataset
should always be as.clean as possible in order to set a good example.

Mostly eliminating the FIXME spelling now (instead of waiting for it to
disappear naturally over the next decade) will also allow us to simplify
the wiki documentation a little bit, get rid of special cases in tools
and so on. That may only be a small benefit, but it's the sum of all
these small exceptions, duplications and special cases that make
learning the OSM data model unnecessarily hard for mappers and data
consumers alike.

> Software should be able to deal with both.

In my opinion, software should not _need_ to deal with both. Working
around easily fixed database quality issues is a waste of time.
Especially when there's even a volunteer eager to fix these quality issues!