Marvellous reply Richard, This was exactly my thought when I read Pieren's post, but you worded it way better then I could have done.
-- m.v.g., Cartinus On Wednesday 05 October 2011 12:26:04 Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Pieren wrote: > > More in general, I don't like mappers adding manually tons of > > 'FIXME' tags because they don't know or remember or are too > > lazy to check again. This a way to say 'pff, I'm tired now. So > > please, the next person checking this area, finish my work in > > priority". If you don't know, then just sh*t *p. > > This tag is only really acceptable as a temporary personal > > reminder. > > Nonsense. > > If I'm going for a 12-mile country walk, as Anna and I did on Sunday, I'll > see other footpaths branching off along the way. I guess there's three > things I could do. > > a) Ooh! Look! New footpath! Let's turn right and follow it. Yes, I know it > won't get us to where we were going to go. Yes, I know we'll end up > covering all 98712300 miles of footpath in Britain if we do this. Yes, I > know we won't get home in time for dinner. Yes, I know you've got to go to > work tomorrow. Yes, I will expect my divorce papers in the post. > > b) Ignore it. LALALALALA I didn't see that footpath. What footpath? There > was no footpath. If someone wants to come back to this area and survey a > missing footpath or two, well, they can guess where they might be. Stuff > 'em. Mappers should suffer like I had to back in 2005 when we had a Java > applet that took 27 minutes to add one node. Tsk, the kids of today. > > c) Add a short stub and "fixme=incomplete". That way, if someone else is > planning a nice country walk in the area, they can try to follow that > footpath (hey, maybe it joins up with the fixme a mile to the north) rather > than the one that's already mapped. > > So I'll go for (a), obviously, because I don't want to be seen as "lazy" in > the eyes of the awesome talk@ mailing list. > > I'm guessing you're not married, are you, Pieren? > > Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
