[OSM-talk] Ohloh - interesting for two reasons

[Tom Carden]

I've just submitted OSM's code repository to Ohloh so people can get
an idea of who's been contributing to the codebase, and how much
activity there's been, and when.

Have a look at a project you know, it's very interesting.
http://www.ohloh.net/  I'll post here again when it's been indexed.

It's also interesting because I've been saying for a while OSM needs
stats like this for its maps as well as its code.  My poster-child has
always been IBM's HistoryFlow for wikis, but this is more thorough I
think.

It's infeasible to do it right now from the live database, but it's
one to chalk up on the "reasons OSM should include change data in
planet.osm" list.  Ideally the API would give out the relevant data
for an arbitrary bounding box, but perhaps if we're serving this kind
of stuff on a regular basis it would be neatest to settle on a tiling
scheme first...

Best,

Tom.