[OSM-talk] OSMDoc is awesome!

[John Harvey]

  OSMDoc is great - it's a shame it's a year out of date.  I needed a 
more modern breakdown of tag statistics so I decided to write a report 
myself - very quick and dirty (no where near as cool as OSMDoc), but 
functional to get a breakdown of tag usage.  I figured someone else 
might like to read it too:

http://www.gamesforlittletimmy.com/TagStats_100811.txt.gz
(6.1MB decompressed, 881K download.  The text file is Unix formatted, UTF-8)

Basically the file is a breakdown of the most common tags.  If you want 
to know what is the most common shop=, amenity=, highway = etc, this 
file probably has it.  (I skip most of the private spaces like tiger: , 
ksj2:, naptan: etc).

Now for the fun and useless facts part:

    * name="Hauptstraße" is the most common name in the world.  Used
      14,353 times.  (Main Street in German as I understand it)
    * There are 16,691,461 ways, nodes or relations marked with
      building=something.  A year ago that number was 2,367,194 -
      roughly 7x growth.
    * addr:city ="San Diego" is the most common in the world - 367,229
      times.
    * The top 4 countries by addr:country="" are DK, US, DE, CZ.
    * amenity = "swimming_pool" is used 15,436 times.  It doesn't even
      have a wiki page.  leisure = "swimming_pool" (which does have a
      wiki page) is used 6,363 times.
    * amenity = "place_of_worship" is used 327,501 times - 21% growth
      over a year ago.  amenity = "parking" is used 407,445 times - 81%
      growth over a year ago.
    * The most common "street_address"= is "99999 EDITH BLVD NE" - 243
      of them in the world.  (I suspect import issues)
    * There are 315 microbrewery's tagged.  This tag didn't exist last year.
    * The 5 most common operator = are "Metro Transit" (15,052 times),
      "Deutsche Telekom AG" (11,226), "Deutsche Post AG" (9,807),
      "Deutsche Post" (7061), "Royal Mail" (5,534)
    * The most common brand is "agip" - 1907 instances.  Ford is the
      most common car brand with 78 instances.
    * There are more misspellings of denomination="church_of_england"
      (118) than there are denomination="shia" (81) . 
      denomination="catholic" is the most common - 42143 (109% growth in
      a year), but denomination="baptist" may be first next year 33,965
      (1700% growth in a year).
    * shop=hairdresser jumped from 3,439 a year ago to 10729 this year
      (there is an icon in Mapnik and osmarender).  shop=furniture grew
      from 1,675 a year ago to 4,570 this year (14th most common shop=,
      neither Mapnik nor osmarender have an icon for furniture shop's).
    * sport=soccer is the most common - 26% of all sport="" tags. 
      sport="scuba_diving" has 2272 tags now - up 11,200% from last year
      (20).


I'm sure you can find some interesting/useless/funny stats.

John


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