Hey all,
Reading this recent TPM article on OSM (in the wake of SOTMUS)[1], I
noticed that it cites 550 german mappers making edits each week, and links
to OSMstats. The number looks like it's just determined from the graph
titled
"No. of daily active members (week)".
This title is pretty tricky - it could be (and was) read to imply that it's
a weekly number, rather than a weekly range of data. Could we change this
to something like
Active Mappers Per Day
I don't think that it's necessary to indicate in the title the range of the
data - that's pretty clear from the axis. Ideally this would make the
numbers clearer, since the number of mappers per week is neither the sum
nor the average of mappers per day, we should make sure not to imply that
this graph exposes that number.
Tom
[1]:
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/openstreetmap-part-2-new-cartographers.php?ref=fpb
[2]:
http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/index.php?item=countries&country=Germany
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