I can't say I'm convinced about the value of adding FIXMEs to 7000+ postboxes
in the UK in changeset:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10834378
1. Collection Times when missing can be cross referenced with the open data
request with the Royal Mail when the postbox has a reference. See:
http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/
+
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/location_of_every_post_box_that
2. If the postbox doesn't have a ref tag, then the absence of itself is an
obvious thing that doesn't require a FIXME to tell me that it's missing.
There exists tools such as http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/postboxes/ helps one
determine the absence of ref tags and other UK postbox issues.
Consider other data, is it useful to put a FIXME on highways that have no name?
What about those without speed limits?
Generally tools like http://keepright.ipax.at/ and
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ can tell us about these issues. And if not then
presumably they can be improved to do so, rather than adding FIXMEs into the
database.
In general this simply adds extra noise into the changeset history of objects
and areas where no useful (IMHO) change as occurred.
Such large changes (probably performed by a bot) should (and almost be a must)
be discussed in an appropriate forum before the change - in this case OSM Talk
GB mailing list.
As such I'm thinking the changeset should probably be reverted/removed.
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