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! _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
