[OSM-talk] [tech/API] Accessing tags set by a user for traces

[robin paulson]

Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
>> Scale wise we have about 250,000 tag records currently, and even if you 
>> remove the duplicates there are about 40,000 or so. I don't think people 
>> are going to want to download 40,000 tags even if we wanted to let them.
> 
> Any chance of a report of the most popular tags, or would it lock up the
> database for ages just to query them?

\http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tagwatch

does just that