[OSM-talk] OSM stats data

[Artem Pavlenko]

On 6 Dec 2007, at 14:30, Tom Hughes wrote:

> In message <FA0831E5-33E5-4F73-B97F-0618D4333ECE at gmail.com>
>         Artem Pavlenko <artem.mapnik at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> I would really like to use some OSM related data for thematic
>> mapping. How difficult would be to create, for example OSM user
>> counts (or number of data uploads or anything else) for every year
>> for each country? Has anyone looked into this?
>
> Well we don't necessarily know where users are - some of them will
> have set home locations but some won't. Mapping that to country is
> not trivial either unless somebody knows of an easy way to do it?
>
> You can get number of changes per z12 map tile for the last N hours
> fairly easily via the changes API call which might be quite cool to
> plot.
>

Sounds interesting. I guess I should be able to intersect those tiles  
with boundaries and get some country based counts.
How to use 'the changes API'?  wiki?

Artem

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