<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Matthias<br><br>I like the sound of this. Not only useful research, but useful for the active OSM community, and for building new communities. A question I get often is "what does OSM look like in X country"? These kind of community statistics, easily accessible, would be great step towards this.<br><br><span>Similar, and very brief, thoughts at <a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Stats#Thoughts_on_improved_metrics">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Stats#Thoughts_on_improved_metrics</a></span><br><br>Privacy, I only see the issue with private messages. Easy enough to focus on datamining other channels.<br><br>-Mikel<br><div> </div>== Mikel Maron ==<br>+14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new
york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Matthias Meißer <digi_c@arcor.de><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> talk@openstreetmap.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, March 20, 2011 10:05:10 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSM-talk] Analysing the OSM community<br></font><br>Hi there,<br><br>I'm thinking about doing some research on our community itself. I would like to do a statistical approach to analyse our commmunication channels<br>-mailinglists<br>-Forums<br>-wiki<br>-OSM private messages<br>-OSM changesets<br>to be able to do some datamining e.g. 'most mappers work strictly local', 'users just reading mailinglists in their native language',...<br><br>But as far as I know, this informations are
unvailable to the public, so I had to use the main system instance.<br>I'm not that sure who might be the right person to talk with, cause of the different aspects e.g. technical, privacy,....<br><br>Matthias<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br></div></div>
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