-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Topf wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:10:54PM +0100, Harald Kleiner wrote: >> So to recapitulate this topic it seems consensus to me that using >> name=tbd or ref=tbd >> is undesirable and I can easily integrage it in my fixme-check to >> highlight spots where this tagging has been used > > The problem is: If you add a check for name=tbd etc. to your script we > are running into exactly the problem I have been describing, namely > People *will* use it, because you script so handily highlightes those > cases which is what they want. But you will only check for "tbd", > somebody else uses "unknown" instead and asks you to add this to your > script also ad infinitum... > > I am guilty of this myself, I added a check for "anything=*FIXME*" to > OSM Inspector and now ask myself whether I should have done this. Our > checks help people remove those cases from the tags but they also > encourage more and more people to actually uses those special values. > > I don't known how to solve this... :-(
I think the only way is to write a bot to retag [thing]=FIXME as FIXME=[thing] and name=tbd as FIXME=name tbd etc. I know that bots are a touchy subject, but I think we need clear out deprecated and wrong stuff, otherwise interpreting the data will just get horrendous. It just occurred to me that it might be useful to make 2 kinds of FIXME, one for when a ground survey / local knowledge is required, and another for when anyone with expertise could fix the tagging. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl0gU8ACgkQz+aYVHdncI1a7ACgtUYrv7ZGuWK9tWUZhR+WqDAf R8gAn2TBE9oGTkqwhYa0RDzshBy8k0qT =1x3Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
