[Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

[Anthony]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:

> If a user deletes a node and replaces it, then the next import should
> flag that as needing manual intervention.  And users shouldn't do that -
> they should edit the node.
>

If I find it more convenient to delete a node and recreate it, then that's
what I'm going to do.  I'll copy the address information to the future node,
though.  And I'll also keep the "name=Holiday Inn" or whatever.  So you
might not even need to do any manual intervention.

Download all current versions of all imported nodes.  Flag any node with a
changed address or changed name for manual intervention (possibly being
lenient about name changes such as "Holiday Inn" <-> "Holiday Inn
Express").  Download all the nodes with "name=Holiday Inn" (or with a name
beginning with "Holiday Inn").  Match them to your database using the
address and/or lat/lon. Flag anything off by more than say 50 meters for
manual intervention.  Make sure every holiday inn found by one of those two
methods is included in exactly one node.  Flag duplicates and extraneous
nodes for manual intervention.  For missing nodes, either re-add them if
you're certain they are correct or flag them for manual intervention if
you're not 100% certain about your data.

In any case, we're only talking about 1,338 locations.  The number of items
being flagged for manual intervention is likely to be small once the initial
import is made.
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