[Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

Hi,
I use gpsbabel to convert kml to osm.
also perl scripts.

My suggestion for anyone who is importing, first get the data in osm files,
in chunks that are less than 10mb.

Then you can upload them to archive.org for sharing, and people can
check the data and help out.

Of course it might be better to just share a sample of the data first.

If you post your data to archive.org then I can also take a look at it,

mike

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Chris Clemson
<chris.clemson at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I work for the company, who owns  and franchises Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn
> Express, Crowne Plaza and  Intercontinental hotels amongst others.
> A while  ago (before my time) we  had a project with Google  Earth to plot
> all our  hotels.
> I have spoken to one of the guys involved in the project and they seemed
> happy to contribute the same data to OSM.
> I have no idea what format the data  is  in, but I'm guessing it's node
> coordinates with metadata.
> Can someone point me in the right direction  of what   format is required
> for bulk  imports, and how to keep them  synced when the next import is
> done?
>
> I've never done any importing, I've  just used  JOSM to  edit maps and GPX
> traces.
>
> In the archives (last nov?) a conference call was mentioned.
> Has this taken place?
> I would be interested in joining if the time wasn't too crazy (I'm in
> GMT0/BST).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
>
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