Hi Yury,

The dataset looks interesting. Just browsing in locations I know myself, I see 
a few records that don't have an actual permanent presence on the ground 
(farmer's markets) but most seem accurate and up-to-date.

Instead of straight up importing you could consider putting the community to 
work :) and use MapRoulette.

I could see two different MapRoulette challenges. The first one would consist 
of the subset of locations that you can match to existing retail POIs in OSM. 
You could create a tag fix challenge[1] to have mappers add whatever tags are 
appropriate.
The second one could consist of any remaining locations asking mappers to add 
the retail shop. For that you would ideally have additional proof such as 
Mapillary or OSC imagery, or use a mobile surveying app to have mappers 
validate the information on the ground. MapRoulette currently does not offer 
that yet, unfortunately, but there's StreetComplete which may work for that 
part.

[1] 
https://learn.maproulette.org/documentation/creating-cooperative-challenges/#content

--
  Martijn van Exel
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2020, at 21:13, Yury Yatsynovich wrote:
> Greetings!
> The US Department of Agriculture has the following data on retail stores 
> (https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/retailer-locator), which is pretty rich (244K 
> points, lat, lon, names with ref and addresses). I've just sent them an email 
> asking about any license constraints on these data (though, the description 
> page (https://snaped.fns.usda.gov/library/materials/snap-retailer-locator) 
> says "Free Material: Yes"). 
> Any thoughts on the possibility of importing these data into OSM?
> -- 
> Yury Yatsynovich
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