On 24/11/2010 12:43, Richard Moss wrote:
Is there a way to do a search of the archives of an email list? I
have
a question which I'm guessing will have been discussed before, probably
in the Tagging list, but opening each month separately and scrolling
through the subject lines could be a bit tedious.
The question, in case anybody has a good answer, is what to do when
you come across an instance where there is a node taggeed, and then
someone (else, possibly) has drawn an area to represent the same feature
and tagged it accordingly. I came across two examples recently, one was
a village, and the other, a childrens' playground. Both looked a bit
silly at certain zoom levels in Mapnik, where the village name or
playground icon is duplicated. Is there a consensus?
So how do I serach the archives?
You can use Google. ie just search for "site:lists.openstreetmap.org",
plus whatever you want to search for. Then it will only find things from
that domain.
Or there are other archives at Gmame or Nabble. They also allow you to
search the OSM lists:
http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OpenStreetMap-f660402.html
http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap
For your question, I would suggest this:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice
It says:
<quote>
One feature, one OSM-object
Don't place nodes in (equally labelled) areas just to see some icon
appear on the map. The renderers will display icons on areas as well and
there's no need to have every parking-lot, soccer-ground etc. twice in
the database.
</quote>
So the node for the object should be deleted, just make sure all of the
appropriate tags have been copied to the area first.
For places like villages, it might be useful to have a node (as well as
an area) to mark where the village centre is, and suggest where the
label should be shown. But I don't know if there's any agreed tagging
for this.
Craig
_______________________________________________
newbies mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
