[OSM-talk] Who contributed most?

[Tristan Scott]

There's a interesting tool written by a chap in my area, Peter Ito.
http://www.itoworld.com/product/osm/map?area=923:1&show=session:35714:1236607544:1236608289

If you set up an area on it, then you can track the area (via RSS) to
see who performs edits on it and when - I use it to track "my" areas
to see what other people are up to (and someone's doing some fantastic
mapping on the west side of Norwich which is a delight to watch)

So a tool like this would be a good way of viewing the last x users to
edit an area; this sort of tracking is possible.
I don't, however, know of anything capable of dealing with countries,
or anything capable of doing the sort of general analysis you speak
of. It wouldn't be massively difficult to write, I suspect.

Tristan Scott BSc(Hons)
07837 205829



2009/3/10 Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>:
>
> In the discussion about the license change, somebody mentioned the
> idea that we might have to delete contributions by users who
> refuse to agree to the license change or by users who we fail to
> contact.
>
> I have no idea if that suspicion is real or not, but it made me
> think: Has anybody tried to estimate the size of contributions
> from an individual user?  Only counting the number of edits
> doesn't say much, because a user can make many small edits to
> convert roundabouts from squares to circles, another user
> contributes streetnames to an already mapped city, a third user
> has mapped the country roads of an entire county.  We sometimes
> hear that OSM has 100,000 registered users, but many haven't
> contributed much.  Well, how many have contributed much?  Who
> contributed the most?  For a particular region, such as Sweden,
> who are the 20 or 200 most valuable contributors?  Do we know?
>
> I think this has an interest (or at least curiosity) on its own,
> quite independent of the license change.
>
>
> --
>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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