I'm looking in Mali, looking at the history of a sample I'd say they were HOT mapped and many are more than four years old.
Cheerio John On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 09:29, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/03/2020 13:09, john whelan wrote: > > I'm seeing a fair number of settlements with this fixme tagged on them and > I'm not sure what the logic is. > > There are 39k "fixme=name" worldwide. I suspect usage varies greatly > worldwide; it would be useful to know which ones you're looking at. > > The nearest few to me (at https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Rxh , for info) > seem to be either "name from one source disagrees with name from another > source, needs more investigation" or "name was copied from an > out-of-copyright map and is probably rubbish". > > > > I would have thought it is fairly simple to search for place=village > without a name tag or am I missing something? > > It depends. I'm guessing based on your previous list discussions, but > perhaps someone's been remotely mapping areas that HOT or similar projects > have an interest in, have identified a settlement from imagery but > (obviously) do not know its name? > > Adding "fixme=name" doesn't add any value when the "name" tag is missing. > as everyone can see that the name tag is missing. Also, adding 1000s of > new fixmes to an area (that add no value) will overwhelm the existing ones > that aren't obvious (and I'm speaking as someone who regularly looks at > local fixmes when out and about). That said, I wouldn't mass-delete such > fixmes either as you don't know what workflows people are using locally to > try and correct these. > > With regard to searching, if someone is searching for a village by name > then clearly they won't find it if it is unnamed, regardless of the search > method. > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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