[OSM-dev] Any tile statistics (unique visitors)

[Andy Allan]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk> wrote:
> 2008/12/7 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ian Dees wrote:
>>> It would be pretty neat to see a map of the number of times a certain
>>> tile is served. While it certainly wouldn't be any measure of visitors,
>>> it would be a pretty nifty visualization of the "busy" areas of the planet.
>>
>> I believe Andy Allan showed such pretty pictures made from Cycle Map
>> access statistics at this year's SOTM.
>>
>
> Yes, I made a (ridiculously inefficient) slippy heat map based on
> cycle map apache logs for a given day/period. It was primarily done to
> find areas people were looking for tiles but we didn't have them (ie:
> the 404 responses), so we could add the areas to our render list. We
> don't need that now because we cover everywhere :-)

Slide 16 at http://www.slideshare.net/gravitystorm/osm-cycle-map

Cheers,
Andy