Hi, Peter Wendorff wrote:
Deletion of attribute-less objects will never be a problem, as long as nobody tries to get information from that objects (not included from my point of view).
Wrong because someone could try to build an object from them in the next step.
Of course the tactics like "I make three dots to mark for myself, that it needs further work there" will fail in that cases. But what's the problem in adding a fixme-attribute to that data?
There is no "problem" in adding a fixme attribute. Many people indeed do it because they like it better. Some people put three dots because they like that better. We don't have to force everyone to do it the same way.
If I do three dots and I find that another mapper in my area removes them, I'll talk to him and then he'll hopefully understand. If I map in an area where my dots are removed all the time, I'll probably start using a fixme. (Personally I think a fixme is too strong - it sounds like there is something "broken" that needs to be "fixed" whereas I simply want to point out that there's something there which has not yet been mapped. To me, the logical equivalent would be covering every unmapped place in "fixme"s.)
As I said, I am not religious about this particular "personal touch" that people may have in mapping. What I dislike is the basic idea of creating rules that everyone must follow (combined with "but what's the PROBLEM in following my rule?").
We must create rules only as a last resort; only where there is no other way but for everyone to do the same.
The real art is to identify the places where one must have rules, and leave anything else alone. Every extra rule makes OSM less good. That's my basic message - the "..." is just an example.
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