[OSM-talk] Analysis of usage of similar tags over time

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

On 01/09/16 00:15, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently, a new tool was created by Martin Raifer (@tyrasd) to
> generate graphs of the usage of tags over time. This is a great tool
> that gives us more insight in what drives the choice of tags by
> mappers. The tool can be found at http://taghistory.raifer.tech/.
>
> I wrote an OSM diary to discuss some results:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Math1985/diary/39404#comment35887
>
> -- Matthijs
>
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I entered

man_made=tower

man_made=mast

amenity=atm

amenity=police

etc.

in this tool and it showed graphic lines in different color. Amazing.


However I have got yet some doubts as one usually does about a new tool. 
Could it be that there are only 104000 ATMs mapped in the whole world? I 
mean, - is it really the data from the OSM database? Is it retrieved via 
the Overpass API or from a tool's own database? If the latter how often 
it is synchronized with the live OSM database?


One more thing: in JOSM when one selects a key there is a readily 
available drop down list of values for this key. And even when one 
starts typing the key there are suggestions based on first letters 
entered. It would be great if Martin Raifer could add a similar 
functionality to the page. It is possible to do with jQuerry 
Autocomplete feature [1]. Otherwise I have to switch to JOSM back and 
forth to look up the exact key&value pairs spelling. Could you please 
forward to Martin this suggestion?


[1] https://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/