I've been interested in the statistical aspects of mapping for a while, and in baseball cards for even longer than that.
You may have seen this before. Hang on. I've added something cool. One question I come back to frequently is "If mappers had baseball cards, what would they look like?" Another is, "If you had mapper baseball cards, who would you trade for whom? " That is probably a topic for another day. :-) For today, I've made some updates to my little mapper baseball card project. I imaginatively call it "UserStat" because I am Just That Good At Marketing. So here is a basic mapper baseball card for "rw__". Hey@ That's me! http://rweait.dev.openstreetmap.org/daily/rw__.html Now, that won't win any design prizes, but I'm trying to keep the html simple and sane so that a Read Designer can come along with some nice css to make it really rock. Here's something I didn't know. I used Potlatch more than JOSM in only one year. Hmmm. I would never have known without the stats and little graphs. That's cool, I guess, but I have another account as well, 'rw_'. Again. Note the awesome imaginative name. Here's the card for that account. http://rweait.dev.openstreetmap.org/daily/rw_.html There is something different to learn here. I didn't use the account for a couple of years. And I hadn't used it with Potlatch at all. That probably speaks to my browser settings in some way. Here's something new. What if you could get combined stats for all of your specialty accounts? What would all of that combined mapping look like if it were a single mapper? Let's find out. Here are my three accounts with combined statistics. http://rweait.dev.openstreetmap.org/daily/rw__career.html The code is all available in UserStat, the examples are from the rearrange branch. Hopefully I'll merge it shortly and move towards a 0.1 release. You'll want ChangesetMD as well, as that builds the database the UserStat relies upon. https://github.com/rweait/UserStat/tree/rearrange My wishlist: - mappers to think it's cool and ask for their stats. - designers to take an interest in making it prettier. - developers to patch and improve. - ideas! What are additional tools that mappers use and how can we measure them? - long range: make it all "webby and stuff" and let people serve themselves. Best regards and happy mapping, Richard _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
