[OSM-talk] User stats desperately wanted

[Tom Higgy]

http://osm.bandnet.org/osm_stats/pngs/month-latest.png

Blue line...

I never really did anything useful with this. Also missing some when I 
gave up leaving my computer on.

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    whenever I make a presentation about OSM, I tell them about our
> exponential growth. I used to show them this
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/images/c/c7/Osmdbstats4A.png
> 
> but that's stopped in July last year, so I have no current picture
> about the growth of our user base.
> 
> The page
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html
> 
> has a section "Number of users editing over the past Day/Week/ Month"
> and it would be trivial to make a nice chart from this if only I had
> run a "wget" on that page for the last year, which I haven't. Has
> anybody by chance done this and can provide me with data, either raw or
> cooked? Or is anybody else keeping track of the numbers in any way?
> 
> Also, I am often asked about the size of the community in Germany.
> What I usually did is take the world-wide figures, compare the size of
> germany.osm to planet.osm and adjust the figures accordingly. But with 
> the huge amount of TIGER data this gets a bit distorted. Any ideas?
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
>  


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Tom
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