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

[Richard Fairhurst]

Florian Lohoff wrote:
> Have you ever dealt with OSM data from a software development
> standpoint?
> 
> There is no such thing as "database quality". Its a big spaghetti 
> mess and data consumers take whats documented and ignore 
> misspellings. Users have to fix it with discipline noticing the errors 
> in data consumers products. Thats been OSM for more than a 
> decade.

This is absolutely spot on and perhaps the best summary I've read of how
real-world products deal with OSM data. Thank you, Florian.

I'd add one postscript: for cycle.travel I take what's used, not "what's
documented", and I believe many other consumers do the same. The surface
values I parse are those which show up most highly at
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/surface#values , not whatever might
be listed at the wiki. The same goes for numerous other cases where wiki
documentation differs wildly from real-world mapping practice (there are a
couple of notorious examples around access which I won't bore you with
here).

Richard



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