We did a GNS import of place names in Ireland at at time when very few place names were already mapped and the map was full of emptiness. It worked well for us, since the de-duplication task wasn't that bad and it created reference points for future mapping. It is certainly true that accuracy is poor - off by 2km in many cases. But in a from-scratch mapping effort it's easier to re-spot these than it is to create brand new nodes, and even the baseline is better than nothing.
I'd be a little more wary of importing such data into a well-mapped area. Dermot -- -------------------------------------- Iren sind menschlich _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
