[OSM-talk] Contribution graph

2009-12-17 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
I've added another OSM graph to the stats page. It shows the % contribution of ways (current table, no account for history) per editor. It reveals that 95% of the way data is contributed by just 10% of the contributor base. In fact 50% of way data has been contributed by just 31 user accounts

Re: [OSM-talk] Contribution graph

2009-12-17 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: I've added another OSM graph to the stats page. It shows the % contribution of ways (current table, no account for history) per editor. It reveals that 95% of the way data is contributed by just 10% of the contributor base. In fact 50% of way data has

Re: [OSM-talk] Contribution graph

2009-12-17 Thread Martijn van Exel
Intriguing, Andy. Thanks for adding this. Would be nice to be able to filter out the import-users when producing these stats, however. Is that feasible? Martijn On Dec 17, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: I've added another OSM graph to the stats page. It shows the %

Re: [OSM-talk] Contribution graph

2009-12-17 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Martijn van Exel [mailto:mve...@gmail.com] wrote: Sent: 17 December 2009 4:04 PM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Contribution graph Intriguing, Andy. Thanks for adding this. Would be nice to be able to filter out the import-users when

Re: [OSM-talk] Contribution graph

2009-12-17 Thread Stephen Hope
There was a similar study that has been done in Wikipedia - and it got similar results. Then somebody else did some closer studies, and found that the last edit may have been done by one of the 10%, but they were often cosmetic cleanups. The bulk of creation was done by other users. I wonder how

Re: [OSM-talk] Contribution graph

2009-12-17 Thread John Smith
2009/12/18 Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com: often cosmetic cleanups.  The bulk of creation was done by other users. I wonder how much this applies to mapping. I've pondered about this before but I came to the conclusion that mapping is a little different than adding knowledge to a wiki. You can

Re: [OSM-talk] Contribution graph

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:58 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: I've pondered about this before but I came to the conclusion that mapping is a little different than adding knowledge to a wiki. You can always add map details by travelling about, or based on new sets of data

Re: [OSM-talk] Contribution graph

2009-12-17 Thread John Smith
2009/12/18 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: As a veteran of approaching 10,000 edits on Wikipedia, I can tell you that most of them came from outside my own personal knowledge. See a gap, There would come a point where you will run out of things to learn/care about, or are you planning to

Re: [OSM-talk] Contribution graph

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:02 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: There would come a point where you will run out of things to learn/care about, or are you planning to become so knowledgable on subjects that you would specilise in things to write out information to the nth degree?

Re: [OSM-talk] Contribution graph

2009-12-17 Thread John Smith
2009/12/18 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: I'm not running out any time soon :) I was commenting on the amount per time, not that there is nothing left to write up about. Got bigger problems to deal with first. Just pointing out that the amount of stuff that could be mapped is potentially