conversion and import itself is pretty simple. <br>But most of these hotels will exist already in osm. It's important to merge the data and avoid duplicates.<br>doing updates is is even more complex. other users may have added information and you can't simply delete and upload newer data<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Chris Clemson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.clemson@btinternet.com">chris.clemson@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello everyone,<br>
I work for the company, who owns and franchises Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn<br>
Express, Crowne Plaza and Intercontinental hotels amongst others.<br>
A while ago (before my time) we had a project with Google Earth to plot<br>
all our hotels.<br>
I have spoken to one of the guys involved in the project and they seemed<br>
happy to contribute the same data to OSM.<br>
I have no idea what format the data is in, but I'm guessing it's node<br>
coordinates with metadata.<br>
Can someone point me in the right direction of what format is required<br>
for bulk imports, and how to keep them synced when the next import is<br>
done?<br>
<br>
I've never done any importing, I've just used JOSM to edit maps and GPX<br>
traces.<br>
<br>
In the archives (last nov?) a conference call was mentioned.<br>
Has this taken place?<br>
I would be interested in joining if the time wasn't too crazy (I'm in<br>
GMT0/BST).<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Chris<br>
<br>
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