[OSM-newbies] making a csv file of a data set

[Hermann Peifer]

On 2014-03-23 23:38, wouter van der plas wrote:
> i know how to get the population of everyting. what i would like to have
> is a way so i can add the population to cities were it is missing.
>
> for example in china there are a lot of cities but none have a
> population or a wiki tag were i could find the population
>

Hmm. I must have completely misread you mail. Even twice. Sorry. Maybe 
because I did not expect a bulk-import question on the newbies list. 
There is actually a dedicated list for imports: 
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/. Maybe you want to 
ask there what people think about your idea. Mechanical edits are not 
that popular, as stated in another reply.

Hermann