[Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

[Richard Weait]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:58 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?

Hi Chris,

Welcome.

If you don't want to do it yourself, consider putting the data you
have on a server and sending a link to the data to this list.  Please
also include explicit permission to include your hotel information in
OpenStreetMap under the current and future OSM licenses.

Even better, if you want the hotel information to have a chance to be
kept up to date, consider publishing a feed of hotel changes.

Best regards,
Richard