UK Quarterly Project/2024/2024 Q1 Project: Fixmes and Notes
Welcome
For the first Quarterly Project of 2024 we will be focusing on Fixmes, Notes and Notes. We have ran similar Quarterly Projects before, see UK Quarterly Project/2023/2023 Q1 Project: Fixmes and Notes and UK 2019 Q4 Project: Fixmes and Notes.
Finding Notes
Websites
- Pascal Neis UK Notes (Open only)
- Notes Review
- note-viewer
- My OpenStreetMap Notes (Notes by user name)
- Random note by country This link will open a random note in the UK
- Potential Duplicates (Notes in the exact same spot) (UK section, OSM wiki)
- Oldest OSM Notes by Country: UK
Did you know?
Instead of monitoring notes for the whole country, OSM.org has feeds for notes in specific areas, you can specify a bounding box and get notified whenever a note changes. eg Isle of Wight
You can filter to specific phrases that interest you, eg footpaths or onosm.org or even with images.
Stats
Stats for the UK can be viewed on Pascal Neis' resultsmap website.
| Date | Open | Closed | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-03 | 18,426 (27.66%) | 48,199 (72.34%) | 66,625 |
| 2019-10-12 | 18,393 (27.46%) | 48,593 (72.54%) | 66,986 |
| 2019-10-24 | 18,535 (27.43%) | 49,027 (72.57%) | 67,562 |
| 2019-11-23 | 18,646 (27.11%) | 50,141 (72.89%) | 68,787 |
| 2020-04-20 | 19,983 (26.90%) | 54,317 (73.10%) | 74,300 |
| 2020-05-08 | 20,203 (26.93%) | 54,804 (73.07%) | 75,007 |
| 2020-07-08 | 21,156 (27.07%) | 57,009 (72.93%) | 78,165 |
| 2021-07-07 | 26,080 (26.11%) | 73,812 (73.89%) | 99,892 |
| 2022-05-07 | 29,519 (24.51%) | 90,914 (75.49%) | 120,433 |
| 2022-12-29 | 30,049 (22.47%) | 103,697 (77.53%) | 133,746 |
| 2023-01-04 | 29,812 (22.23%) | 104,276 (77.77%) | 134,088 |
| 2024-01-05 | 31,778 (19.94%) | 127,570 (80.06%) | 159,348 |
| 2024-02-06 | 30,903 (19.20%) | 130,054 (80.80%) | 160,957 |
| 2024-03-02 | 30,829 (19%) | 131,383 (81%) | 162,212 |
Fixmes
Fixmes are tags on existing OSM objects. fixme is the most common tag, but there are others. These are often asking for things to be traced once there is imagery available, others have data that can be moved to better tags.
The number of objects tagged with fixme=*, and how this has changed over time can be seen at https://taginfo.geofabrik.de/europe:united-kingdom/keys/fixme#chronology
Objects tagged with fixmes can be found using several different tools, including:
Other ways to help
When reviewing notes, you may appreciate the utility and value of streetlevel imagery. If you have the ability to update or provide imagery in your area, it helps all contributors.