[OSM-talk] bulk loading towns/cities locations

[Paul]

On 4/11/2007 6:38 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> I can see some advantage to this (if the existing names in Australia
>> where removed before the upload) to give a rough location of towns,
>> but have always been hesitant because of the innacuracy. It also
>> includes locations for all suburbs in cities, and these will just
>> end up piled on top of each other .
> 
> If you ever decide to import these, then you might want to add a
> random value to lat/lon upon import (of +/- a quarter minute or so).
> This doesn't add a lot to your existing inaccuracies but is likely to
> make it much easier to read the names if they are in the same place,
> and also grab and move them for editing.
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 

So how do you load bulk values into OSM is there a page or script for this purpose?

Paul