[Imports] Importing fuel stations in UK and future similar imports

[Ian Dees]

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Ilya Zverev <ilya at zverev.info> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Together with the NavAds company, we plan to import a thousand Shell fuel
> stations to the United Kingdom. The source is official, which means, Shell
> company specifically shared the dataset to put them on maps. Do you have
> any objections or questions?
>
> The import is done with the OSM Conflator script. It matches dataset
> points to all amenity=fuel nodes and polygons inside a 50 meter radius. If
> found, the object is not moved, but tags are updated from the dataset. The
> object gets correct opening hours, uniform brand and operator tags, and so
> on. If there is no fuel station in OSM there, it is created as a node.
>
> Check out the resulting visualization here: http://bl.ocks.org/d/
> 70742fe51e281cb2cd5a80b8eb1e8e11 (markers are clickable; blue means
> modified object, green — new one). Can you find anything wrong that we can
> fix?
>
> You might prefer opening http://bl.ocks.org/anonymous/raw/
> 70742fe51e281cb2cd5a80b8eb1e8e11/map.geojson in http://geojson.io or iD
> editor to see the data on top of a satellite imagery layer.
>
> Every object is given a "ref:navads_shell" tag with an identifier, which
> will later be used for updating the data.
>
> After this import there will be others of similar nature and quality.
> Uploading will be done with a dedicated account (not created yet). The
> NavAds company specializes in putting businesses on maps, and we are
> helping them to include OpenStreetMap in their choice of target maps. I
> hope you are okay with this.
>

I'm interested in doing something like this with lots of US chains (see
https://github.com/iandees/all-the-places), so it's good to see you get
started here. Can you point to the conflate script you used?
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