I've been poking through the data and wrote a quick JOSM plugin a while back when SimpleGeo's API was free to query the view's bbox and discovered that there's a LOT of places but quite a few of them are old or misplaced.
Basically, it won't be very helpful to import wholesale, but since it has phone numbers and addresses it might be useful to use as an overlay in the editors to bring in extra information for existing OSM data. You could also bring it in piece-by-piece if you know the POI is there. Based on this, I'm thinking about putting all of the data into a simple read-only OSM API so that editors could query it as a secondary layer to help with editing. On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Jaime Crespo <jy...@jynus.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have searched on the mailing lists archives and on the wiki, but I > have not found if someone else has been already checking the quality, > accuracy and usefullness of these POIs, regarding OSM: > > <http://opengeodata.org/weekly-osm-summary-23> > <http://blog.simplegeo.com/2011/08/01/august-updates/> > > I have downloaded the file and I am currently looking at the data near my > area. > > -- > Jaime Crespo > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > Imports@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports >
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