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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Chris Clemson
[mailto:chris.clemson@btinternet.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 28 January 2010
00:47<BR><B>To:</B> 'Apollinaris Schoell'<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Imports]
Bulk Import of Hotels<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>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
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<DIV><SPAN class=968343800-28012010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>hmm,
you'd be surprised how many are missing, unless the names contain
typos?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968343800-28012010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Searching for "Holiday Inn" yields about 536 in
GeoNames, not sure about Nominatim as there's no totals, but we
have over 5000 of them.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=968343800-28012010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Is
there a way of counting tags/objects without downloading
planet.osm?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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