[OSM-talk] One billion tags

[Shaun McDonald]

On 1 Mar 2009, at 11:21, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:

> Jochen Topf <jochen <at> remote.org> writes:
>
>>
>> The OSM database now contains over 1 billion tags on nodes, ways and
>> relations together. Congratulations all around!
>>
>> Jochen
>
> Big number really.  I guess it is the American billion and not the  
> European one
> (thousand millions vs. million millions), but still.  How are you  
> calculating
> your statistics, and do you nkow how the daily statistics behind the  
> wiki main
> page link are computed?  There seem to be some difference in the  
> numbers.
>
> OpenStreetMap stats report run at Sun Mar 01 00:00:07 +0000 2009
> Number of users	95760
> Number of uploaded GPS points	705163261
> Number of nodes	315901319
> Number of ways	25524745
> Number of relations	71123
>
>

These stats don't give anything information about tags. There will  
usually be multiple tags on each node, way and relation.
This is the script used:
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/rails_port/script/statistics

Shaun