[OSM-talk] OSM in Europe Statistics

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Miércoles, 30 de Abril de 2008, Frederik Ramm escribió:
>    a very crude statistic:
>
> Country       osm.bz2 size    population    ratio (bytes per capita)
> Netherlands       51M            16M                3.2
> Spain             17M            40M                0.4
[...]
> 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.

We made some numbers in talk-es two weeks ago. It seems that OSM covers around 
17% of the spanish road network, measured in lenght: 63000km/370000km.

Extrapolating, that means that we would be aiming at 2.5 bytes per capita.

Maybe you should remake these numbers, but calculating bytes per kilometer 
square.

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

I got permission to use a censal list of street names - we should be able to 
tell out the percentage of street names that are right/wrong/missing - it 
would make a nice statistic. As soon as somebody hacks a script to do so.

Cheers,
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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>

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