[OSM-talk] Sub-national and regional mailing lists

[Steve Chilton]

Graphs recast, ranked by population, and with both stats divided by population rather than one by area. 
see: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~steve8/planetextracts2.pdf (left graphs).
As Erik surmised the Scandanavia countries show better by this method, with Sweden, Finland and Norway (and Iceland) joing the previously highly ranked Germany, Great Britain and Netherlands.
I think I will stop there.....
 
STEVE

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Erik Johansson [mailto:erjohan at gmail.com] 
	Sent: Sun 6/1/2008 11:19 PM 
	To: Steve Chilton 
	Cc: 
	Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Sub-national and regional mailing lists
	
	

	On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Steve Chilton <S.L.Chilton at mdx.ac.uk> wrote:
	> [Dodgy statistics warning ....]
	
	Thanks for publishing never the less, it was very usefull. I have some
	notes here:
	
	My reaction is mainly because Sweden faired so bad, so.. :-) The worst
	thing for me was that there are more people downloading the data from
	Finland than from Sweden.. :-( And this is a fact I can't refute,
	which must mean we aren't doing enough to promote OSM in Sweden.
	
	First of all area and population has no correlations. The top ten
	largest countries in the EU has a pop density between 16 to 246, and
	the ten smallest countries have densities between 29 and 1200
	people/km2....
	
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Statistics#Area_and_population
	
	Second, density of the population and mapping should have good
	correlation, because of many things. Aerial Image coverage (people in
	Finland are tracing from landsat), how much gas you need to map
	something that is 100km away.
	
	LA2 have mentioned this, Finland and Sweden are both very large
	countries but we have alot of coastlines and about 8% of our area is
	lakes... So that inflates our planet extract stats, alot.
	
	
	> Iceland trailing [Iceland mapping party anyone?].
	
	Hard country to map since it's so beautiful that you really want to be
	out in the nature walking. Sure you can map that as well but it's
	harder to have a mapping party to do that.. ;-)
	
	Thanks again for the stats.