Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-28 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Anthony wrote: > Download all current versions of all imported nodes.  Flag any node with a > changed address or changed name for manual intervention (possibly being > lenient about name changes such as "Holiday Inn" <-> "Holiday Inn > Express"). I was able to do

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-28 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > If a user deletes a node and replaces it, then the next import should > flag that as needing manual intervention. And users shouldn't do that - > they should edit the node. > If I find it more convenient to delete a node and recreate it, th

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-28 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > I've been thinking about how to handle maintenance of imports; so far > osm has tended to import once and then just edit. My suggestion is to > put whatever database primary key you use on the node, and to be able to > look at the node and te

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-28 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-01-28 09:33, Greg Troxel wrote: >... >- if a user moves a hotel point and the hotel company has a new phone >number and verifies (perhaps programmatically) that the old phone number >is still there, then it's fine to automatically edit it. But it would >be broken to overwrite the location.

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-28 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Guys, This sounds like a nice application. I think there is a general need for some type of POI database, even where you dont have the location yet. Streetname, town, general lists could be loaded and compared and linked to osm.. But where is this hotel data? I would like to see a sample. Can you

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-28 Thread Greg Troxel
Pieren writes: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > >> I've been thinking about how to handle maintenance of imports; so far >> osm has tended to import once and then just edit. My suggestion is to >> put whatever database primary key you use on the node, and to be able to >

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-28 Thread McGuire, Matthew
:05 AM To: andrzej zaborowski Cc: imports Subject: Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels On 28 January 2010 14:03, andrzej zaborowski mailto:balr...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 28 January 2010 14:51, Pieren mailto:pier...@gmail.com>> wrote: > But what happens if someone replaces your impor

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-28 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 28 January 2010 14:03, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > On 28 January 2010 14:51, Pieren wrote: > > But what happens if someone replaces your imported node with a new one or > > the node is deleted or someone just changes your primary key for fun ? > > I think it would be better to keep the node_i

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-28 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 28 January 2010 14:51, Pieren wrote: > But what happens if someone replaces your imported node with a new one or > the node is deleted or someone just changes your primary key for fun ? > I think it would be better to keep the node_id or way_id (building) in your > own database and check regula

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-28 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > I've been thinking about how to handle maintenance of imports; so far > osm has tended to import once and then just edit. My suggestion is to > put whatever database primary key you use on the node, and to be able to > look at the node and

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-28 Thread Greg Troxel
I've been thinking about how to handle maintenance of imports; so far osm has tended to import once and then just edit. My suggestion is to put whatever database primary key you use on the node, and to be able to look at the node and tell which import was done, which really means the internal dat

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Clemson
mson Subject: Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Chris Clemson wrote: conversion and import itself is pretty simple. But most of these hotels will exist already in osm. It's important to merge the data and avoid duplicates. hmm, you'd be surp

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Clemson
> -Original Message- > From: Chris Clemson [mailto:chris.clem...@btinternet.com] > Sent: 28 January 2010 00:16 > To: 'jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com' > Subject: RE: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels > > Hi James, > Thanks for the quick reply. > >

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Clemson
_ From: Chris Clemson [mailto:chris.clem...@btinternet.com] Sent: 28 January 2010 00:47 To: 'Apollinaris Schoell' Subject: RE: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels conversion and import itself is pretty simple. But most of these hotels will exist already in osm. It'

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Clemson
Oops, forgot "reply to all" > -Original Message- > From: Chris Clemson [mailto:chris.clem...@btinternet.com] > Sent: 28 January 2010 03:03 > To: 'Iván Sánchez Ortega' > Subject: RE: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels > > > > The format req

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-27 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Jueves, 28 de Enero de 2010, Chris Clemson escribió: > [...] Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Crowne Plaza and Intercontinental > hotels amongst others. I have spoken to one of the guys involved in the > project and they seemed happy to contribute the same data to OSM. Great! > I have no i

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Chris Clemson wrote: > Hello everyone, > I work for the company, who owns  and franchises Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn > Express, Crowne Plaza and  Intercontinental hotels amongst others. > A while  ago (before my time) we  had a project with Google  Earth to plot > al

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-27 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 00:58, Chris Clemson wrote: > Can someone point me in the right direction  of what   format is required > for bulk  imports, and how to keep them  synced when the next import is > done? sync can be done by assigning a unique identifier to the hotel (which I bet you already

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-27 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
It should be possible to look for points within a certain radius and only import them. Get the data first online and we can go from there. The best thing would be to split the data up and let people who are managing an area import chunks of them. mike On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Apollinaris

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-27 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
conversion and import itself is pretty simple. But most of these hotels will exist already in osm. It's important to merge the data and avoid duplicates. doing updates is is even more complex. other users may have added information and you can't simply delete and upload newer data On Wed, Jan 27,

Re: [Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-27 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi, I use gpsbabel to convert kml to osm. also perl scripts. My suggestion for anyone who is importing, first get the data in osm files, in chunks that are less than 10mb. Then you can upload them to archive.org for sharing, and people can check the data and help out. Of course it might be bette

[Imports] Bulk Import of Hotels

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Clemson
Hello everyone, I work for the company, who owns and franchises Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Crowne Plaza and Intercontinental hotels amongst others. A while ago (before my time) we had a project with Google Earth to plot all our hotels. I have spoken to one of the guys involved in the p