[OSM-talk] OSM stats data

[Michael Collinson]

At 03:30 PM 12/6/2007, 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?

As a *very* approximate method, I believe I do have a file of country 
max/min lat/lons I made from analyzing the full GNIS dataset. I can 
search it out if anyone wants it.

Or for the future, enhance the home location setting to include a 
country setting.

Mike
Stockholm