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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2017-05-11 17:39 GMT+02:00 Ilya Zverev <ilya at zverev.info>:

> 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.



what if there are several petrol stations close to each other, but not all
are mapped in OSM? I guess it could happen sometimes, although it is not
very likely to happen often.



> 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.



Are all those stations operated by Shell, or is it just the brand (and
supplier)? If it is the latter, you shouldn't expect too much authority
from the Shell data, in the first case, quality might be better.

Still I'd expect local mappers to confirm the correct data by survey,
rather than blindly trust the foreign dataset.

Cheers,
Martin
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