[OSM-talk] Ed Parsons Blog

Etienne Cherdlu openstreetmap-L at gj0.net
Fri May 12 23:42:49 BST 2006


>From Thursday's Guardian article:
"We make an average of 5,000 changes to our large-scale data every
day," said an OS spokesperson. "It's not about mapping the Isle of
Wight once - it's about continuing to map it ... It is expensive to
collect detailed, accurate information on the ever-changing world to
the level of detail our customers require."

>From an OSM spokesperson:
"This month we made an average of 6,567 (Note 1) changes to our large
scale-data every work day" said an OSM spokesperson.  "It's not about
mapping the Isle of Wight once - it's about continuing to map it ...
and using enthusiastic and passionate volunteer surveyors we are
collecting more information every day with 1,864 registered volunteers
than the Ordnance Survey manages to do with a paid full time workforce
of 1,490."

Note 1:
According to http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html
Total number of edits in last month = 131,346 (excludes TIGER import)
Average number of changes per day (131,346 / 31)=4,236
Average number of changes per work day (131,346 / 20)=6,567

I think Ed is starting to smell the coffee...

Etienne ;-)



On 5/12/06, Andy Robinson <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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