[Strategic] OpenStreetMap Growth Rate

[Mikel Maron]

> > can anybody organize the OpenStreetMap growth rate per region? My
> > idea was to have an indicator like [new nodes] / [100 square
> > kilometers] over the last x month for different countries or regions?
>
> I think this is of interest to a wider audience and should be discussed 
> on talk; Kai Krueger has done some preliminary work in that direction 
> and I could imagine he'd be able to provide interesting stats if briefed.

Regional/country level stats are a definite need. I've also wanted to see
stats on the user community per country ... segmented based on their
experience with OSM (by date of signup, or number of contributions)
and comparing remote vs local mappers (are mappers on the ground, or tracing).

Collecting a few ideas at 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Stats#Thoughts_on_improved_metrics

The exact idea is to easily track and identify communities progress, and
target programs (this may not be within OSMF, as discussed).

Cheers
Mikel
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