Agreed, it's quite misleading. I don't know who makes those stats (to be honest, this is the first I see of them) but the graph title could do without the (week) bit. Also: 'Max. OSM user ID of a member with at least one contribution' - what does that tell us?
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Tom MacWright <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > -- martijn van exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
