On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Tobias Knerr <o...@tobias-knerr.de> wrote:

> On 25.02.2015 02:58, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> > It is apparent that a number of imports have left tens of thousands of
> > fixme notes that have a low chance of ever getting addressed.  Pick your
> > favorite from the lists above: set␣better␣denotation is my mine.
>
> That's from a mechanical edit that should never have happened in the
> first place. The edit was basically done in order to establish the
> "denotation" tag for trees, which was almost nonexistent before.
>
> The denotation values were not pulled from an external source, but based
> on guesses of the kind "another tree within x meters => must be a
> cluster of trees". In my opinion, it could make sense to also remove the
> denotation keys on trees with set␣better␣denotation. After all, the
> continuing existence of that fixme shows that no human ever verified these.
>
> I also agree with the general goal to get rid of pointless fixme values.


I've sent a message to the user,
to open a discussion about mechanically reversing:

  fixme=set␣better␣denotation
  denotation=cluster

Because these tags are scattered all over Europe, they are likely to eat
mapper time during
routine editing and fixme cleanup.

The same tag appears on a limited number of "seamarks"
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2456524071
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