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It occurred to me that I should add a warning about one category: parking. There are over 30000 entries, so if you import it you need to be very patient! I left it overnight, and in the morning I got a warning about Locus not responding, so I chose "wait", then it came back OK with all the points imported.
just one suggestion. If you want, you may very speed up importing by disabling "duplicate check" in settings! It speed up import more then twice!
Thanks. I had missed that setting.
Based on the discussion here: //http://forum.asamm.cz/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=769 I decided to split the UK parking. What I can do in this respect is very limited, but the Cloudmade site does have separate POI categories for England, Scotland, and Wales (also Northern Ireland, but I did not download that one). The only split I can do for England is a simple N-S (or E-W, but that makes little sense) so I split it on a line just south of Birmingham that does not go through the center of any major town or city. The S England category is still big, about 17000 points, but it's more manageable.
Note: when I imported it counted up through all the points OK, but then I got a FC warning (3 times in fact). Just select "wait". It will work eventually.