Thanks for the numbers, for explaining and for the link, Christoph. Apreciated!
Sergio On 2019-03-12 00:19, Christoph Hormann wrote: > On Monday 11 March 2019, Peter Elderson wrote: >> Sorry, 2000. > IIRC the saying is "two wrongs does not make a right". > > Original use of tags with the landcover key, that is mappers creating a > new geometry with a landcover tag, is as follows (based on data from > 2019-02-28): > > 72848 ways/relations (more of half of these created in organized mapping > with tagging not being the free choice of the mapper) > 1310 different users > 494 of which have used the key exactly once (this, i.e. that about 1/3 > to half of the genuine active users of a tag have only used it once is > pretty standard but still this has to be kept in mind when > contemplating such numbers) > > The reason why taginfo reports only the number of users who have last > touched features with this key is not because this is particularly > meaningful information but because this can be counted quite easily > when processing a planet file (which is what taginfo does on a daily > basis) while numbers on active users (i.e. who maps features with a tag > or who adds a tag to features) can only be determined from the history. > > I can highly recommend Frederik's talk on the matter of OSM statistics > which discusses this in detail: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx0KuvkbvfQ >
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