<p>Hello, </p>
<p>3 weeks after my initial request, I received from the IT Director (E. Joos), a CSV file containing all the informations about each Multipharma in Belgium and the right to publish them on OSM ! Hooray !</p><p>The file is raw and needs to be parsed and cleaned.</p>
<p>I did that part and the file is now converted into a .osm.</p>
<p>To do that, I used LibreOffice to transform some fields, it worked without problems, the CSV handling in LibreOffice is the best I ever seen.<br>To convert the csv file into something usable like a .osm, I used a custom python script I can share.</p>
<p>My questions are:<br></p><p></p><ol><li>How to be sure not to override existing data ?</li><li>How to maintain such a list ?<br>I mean, if I receive an updated CSV in some month, should I upload the whole set ? What about duplicates then ?</li>
<li>After work, the current fields in the CSV are</li><ol><li>Latitude</li><li>Longitude</li><li>Country</li><li>Name</li><li>addr:postcode</li><li>addr:city</li><li>addr:street</li><li>addr:housenumber</li><li>phone</li>
<li>fax</li><li>amenity<br><br>Should I add more fields ? Source ? addr:full ? something else ?<br><br></li></ol><li>What is the preferred file encoding when submitting ? Iso-8859-1 or UTF8 ? Is suppose this is the later, but I want to be sure.</li>
</ol><div>Thanks for the help !</div><p></p><p><br></p>