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color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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class=559060503-28012010>= 145 (unless it needs
wildcards to find "Holiday Inn <town name>"
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Apollinaris Schoell
[mailto:aschoell@gmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 28 January 2010
02:47<BR><B>To:</B> Chris Clemson<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Imports] Bulk Import
of Hotels<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Chris Clemson <SPAN
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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 duplicates.<SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
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<DIV><SPAN><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><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><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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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>try osmdoc<BR><A
href="http://osmdoc.com/en/tags/">http://osmdoc.com/en/tags/</A><BR><BR>if
it's only ~500 existing tags it's reasonable to merge it manually in Josm.
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