[OSM-talk] OSM in Europe Statistics

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

   a very crude statistic:

Country       osm.bz2 size    population    ratio (bytes per capita)
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UK                73M            60M                1.2
Germany          110M            82M                1.3
Netherlands       51M            16M                3.2
France            29M            60M                0.5
Finland           20M             5M                4.0
Italy             14M            58M                0.2
Norway            21M             5M                4.2
Sweden            24M             9M                2.6
Spain             17M            40M                0.4

I suspect that disregarding the coastline (which is included in my
figures) would probably cost the Scandinavian countries a few ranks in
this league. Coastline factor doesn't affect larger countries that much
(but still strange that Italy should have so little - must investigate
quality of border polygon).

It is probably not unreasonable that once the road network is complete
in a European country, we'll look at a ratio not unlike the NL figure.
This would suggest that both the UK and Germany are about 1/3 there.

Of course this is very simplistic and I believe you will come up with
much better measures of progress. Let's hear your numbers ;-)

(Among other things, NL is known as a very densely populated place - UK
has 9 times the area of NL but only 3 times the population -, so those 
map features that tend to fill the available land even if sparsely
populated will mean that the "destination bytes per capita" ratio for
places like UK or DE will be higher than 3.)

Bye
Frederik

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