[OSM-talk] piwik.openstreetmap.org - what is it?

Christian Quest cquest at openstreetmap.fr
Thu Jan 10 10:56:39 GMT 2013


2013/1/10 Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu>:
> On 10/01/13 10:20, Christian Quest wrote:
>
>> For those unfamiliar with piwik, by default it provides a anonymized
>> view, like this one: https://openstreetmap.fr/piwik/
>
>
> Hmm. They don't publicise that very well...
>
> The only anonymisation option I was aware of was a plugin to remove the last
> byte of the IP and I didn't think that was good enough.
>
> How do you configure the full anonymisation like that? Is that just the
> default if you allow the anonymous user to have access?
>
>

Yes, that's the default setup.


>> Connecting piwik between all our different "points of entrance" could
>> be useful to know who came first on openstreetmap.fr before going to
>> openstreetmap.org (or the reverse).
>> Why not a global piwik instance for all the OSM galaxy to have a
>> better overall view ?
>
>
> I think that would be a nightmare to manage. It was certainly the intention
> to add more of the "core" sites to bring in all the many country specific
> sites that are run by third parties would be a massive task I think.
>
>

It looks too simple to me...

One single piwik instance, and all sites who wants to participate to
the study just embed the same global piwik.js on their site.
All analytics are done by this single global piwik db.

... maybe I miss something, but that's a basic feature I expect from
piwik: gather data from more than one single site.

-- 
Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France - http://openstreetmap.fr/u/cquest



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