[Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

It should be possible to look for points within a certain radius and
only import them. Get the data first online and we can go from there.

The best thing would be to split the data up and let people who are
managing an area import chunks of them.

mike

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Apollinaris Schoell <aschoell at gmail.com> wrote:
> conversion and import itself is pretty simple.
> But most of these hotels will exist already in osm. It's important to merge
> the data and avoid duplicates.
> doing updates is is even more complex. other users may have added
> information and you can't simply delete and upload newer data
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:58 PM, 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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