[OSM-talk] Which tiles are more downloaded ....

[Andy Robinson]

Steve Chilton wrote:
>Sent: 28 September 2007 10:30 AM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Which tiles are more downloaded ....
>
>In the last couple of days there have been mentions on a couple of
>geo-blogs of a project to map which Virtual Earth tiles are more
>downloaded.
>Would it be possible to do similar with OSM tiles from the log files?
>Probably not a trivial job to scrape the logs, but I just float the
>idea.
>See:
>http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/3389-MS-Research-Tracks-Which-Virt
>ual-Earth-Tiles-are-More-Downloaded.html
>which has a demo and link to the actual research paper. And:
>http://mapperz.blogspot.com/
>

Most interesting and a great tool for suggesting areas to focus the mapping
on next!

TomH also suggested a map showing tile edits might be feasible and
interesting too.

Cheers

Andy