Where to start. There's the obvious ones like most active contributor per region, first 100 nodes / ways (that persist), one /two/five-year contribution anniversary, first dog waste disposal bag dispenser in your home town, etc. <div>
Also: badges tied to project of the week. The "World Mapper" badge for mapping on all continents. </div><div><br></div><div>One of the many challenges with badges is that you want to encourage *quality* mapping, not just quantity. Listen to the 'competition' episode of This Developer's Life podcast[1] to hear what StackOverflow's Jeff Atwood has to say on the matter.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I intend to do a talk at SOTM on the topic.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/1-1-3-competition">http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/1-1-3-competition</a></div><div>
<div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Much inspiration to be taken from StackOverflow.<br><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Ian Dees <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Mikel Maron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikel_maron@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mikel_maron@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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> > Or do we have something like that already?<br>> > The only thing I look at is the changesets page and that's informative but<br>> > kind of boring.<br>><br>> Everyone can setup planet mirror and calculate any satistics. Just for<br>
> example: <a href="http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?xybot" target="_blank">http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?xybot</a><br>> No need to overload main OSM servers with extra statitic calculation.<br><br>Sure. But I would love to see more detailed stats, and awards/badges integrated into user pages.<br>
There are easy ways to do this on non-osmf servers, and integrate into user
pages.<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>What kind of awards/badges can you think of to offer? </div></div>
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