[OSM-talk] [Tagging] Introducing Taginfo

Sebastian Klein bastikln at googlemail.com
Tue Oct 12 21:58:34 BST 2010


Jochen Topf wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 04:46:26PM +0200, Pieren wrote:
>> If I could have one request, it would be nice to see the amount of different
>> contributors using the same tag. This to distinguish between quantity and
>> popularity. I know it might be challenging since we should only count the
>> user of the tag creation in the element history...
> 
> On http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys there is a 'users' column. But this
> doesn't look at the history, only the current use. It gives you still some
> idea, but its not perfect. But reading the history is not an option at the
> moment, because this would need far more resources.
> 
> The number of users is also taking into account when creating the tag cloud
> for the home page. This way some tags from imports which are very common in
> the database but have a small user count are downgraded. :-)
> 
> Jochen

Is it planned to have users count for the individual key pages? It can 
be interesting to see how popular common_key=some_exotic_value really is.
Sometimes it is used frequently, but by a single mapper only.

Sebastian



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