Key:fixme

+/- fixme Description description of a (possible) error in the map Group Annotation Element help Useful combination note=* Used combinations in World Australia/Oceania Europe (list) Asia (list) Central America (list) South America (list) Africa (list)

The fixme key allows contributors to mark objects and places that need further attention. These can be in the form of a "note to self" or request for additional mapping resources.

Its distinction from note=* is that fixme is only to express that the mapper thinks there is an error, while note might be information to other mappers. Alternate forms include FIXME=* and note=FIXME *.

Related tags

• comment=* — for adding text describing the element to other mappers.
• description=* — for adding text that might be viewable to the end user.
• note=* — A note to yourself or to other mappers.
• noexit=no — For tagging incomplete ways (not completely surveyed) as such
• source=* — For indicating the source of unconfirmed data

Examples

Use fixme=resurvey for objects with unconfirmed coordinates together with source=*.

Use fixme=continue with noexit=no for nodes that constitute the final known point in a way (some people also use fixme=stub for ways that end and have no noexit=* at their end node).

A way with

• highway=residential together with
• fixme=this section of highway ABCD added from memory, add a gpx trace and adjust

or just

• fixme=resurvey

A node or way in an interchange with

• fixme=This interchange is complete with the exception of the SB to WB ramp to Highway ABCD. Would an OSM commuter who takes that ramp trace it please?

An otherwise untagged way surrounding some part of a town with

• fixme=resurvey names in this area, entered from memory

An otherwise untagged node with

• fixme=this area has some missing streets

when a surrounding way cannot be drawn (due to not knowing how far the problem extends)

This is not a tag for robots

This page says The fixme key allows contributors to mark objects (...), and I think contributors means "humans" contributors with "manual" contributions, not automatic bot editing and adding mass of fixme everywhere to flood other interesting "fixme" requests of other mappers.

Tools showing those fixme-tags

• Statistics for "fixme" tag (in lowercase) ( at Openstreetmap taginfo ) - 106 391 objects as of 2011-01-31

• Yet another validation tool for osm data - Shows fixme's texts on a map e.g. Doesn't work with uppercase FIXME
• Keep right - Violet zig-zags with mouseover bubbles e.g.
• OSM Inspector - Shows ways & nodes as blue icons + text when zoomed in. e.g.
• JOSM/Plugins/Validator includes a test for fixme's
• ITO Map has a layer that displays ways with the fixme tag.
• http://www.mappage.org/error/ generates a GPX waypoint file containing points for fixme tags.

See Also

• Proposed_features/Key:fixme