Perhaps these mega-imports should be background data, equivalent to Yahoo and NPE, for people to trace off if they've got a reasonable belief in their current correctness, but not to be used raw? Then while people are tracing their neighbourhood, they might put in some of the details that aren't in the import. But we'll never get the detail unless we have the people.
Even in a very-thoroughly mapped place like Oxford, I keep finding details that aren't correct, because too much has been surveyed by a few enthusiasts, not properly crowd-sourced. For POI databases, like Naptan, perhaps the POIs can be imported, to reduce the tedium of data-entry, but I am tending to agree that they shouldn't be given "full" status until they are locally confirmed (perhaps we should have a generic verified=no tag). Richard
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