[OSM-talk] OSM in Europe Statistics

[Lars Aronsson]

Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Country       osm.bz2 size    population    ratio (bytes per capita)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sweden            24M             9M                2.6
> 
> 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

In Sweden and Finland, it's not just the surrounding coast, but 
all the lakes inside the country and islands along the coast.  
They are results of the ice age, and make for a landscape very 
different from continental Europe.  Before we started to add 
lakes, using the JOSM plugin, you quite couldn't understand why 
the country roads bend and turn so often.  So far, lakes have only 
been added for parts of Sweden, so a lot remains to be done,

Here's an example,
http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=60.1&lon=15.4&zoom=10



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