[OSM-newbies] Searching email list archives

[Andre Engels]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Richard Moss <richard at richardmoss.co.uk> 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?

I don't know about searching the archives, but the way I always handle
the case you mention (point and area for the same object) is to keep
the area and delete the point; however, before doing so, I will check
the tags on both to see whether there are any on the point that are
not on the area, and copy those (by hand) first.


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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com