[OSM-talk] importing excel sheets

[David Murn]

On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 22:52 +0100, Mike Dupont wrote:

> Are the sheets with the gas stations from austraila imported yet? we
> can use that as the test data.

Assuming you mean fuel stations, and not gas stations, then yes a lot
have been imported.  A lot of this information was released under CCBYSA
licence, so be very careful what accounts you use to upload the data.  

The big issue, is that the imports were done a while ago, and the data
has been slowly being corrected since then.  This would mean if you
imported a new copy, youd end up with duplicates, or at the very least,
pollute the data that surveyors have cleaned up since the import.  On my
recent cross-country trip, I corrected maybe 50 locations of BP stations
that were slightly incorrectly marked.  Unless you plan on doing the
8000km drive to re-survey them after importing, I suggest you be careful
about what youre importing.

> One thing that I would like is a webpage for just restaurants,
> something that we can give to noobs to collect restaurant data right
> on the webpage with localizations.

I think something like this would be good.  Especially if you could get
a list of just restaurants that are marked as needing review, but this
is a topic for another thread.

David