[Tagging] [OSM-talk] Introducing Taginfo

[Jochen Topf]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 04:46:26PM +0200, Pieren wrote:
> If I could have one request, it would be nice to see the amount of different
> contributors using the same tag. This to distinguish between quantity and
> popularity. I know it might be challenging since we should only count the
> user of the tag creation in the element history...

On http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys there is a 'users' column. But this
doesn't look at the history, only the current use. It gives you still some
idea, but its not perfect. But reading the history is not an option at the
moment, because this would need far more resources.

The number of users is also taking into account when creating the tag cloud
for the home page. This way some tags from imports which are very common in
the database but have a small user count are downgraded. :-)

Jochen
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