Hi, a very crude statistic:
Country osm.bz2 size population ratio (bytes per capita) -------------------------------------------------------------------- UK 73M 60M 1.2 Germany 110M 82M 1.3 Netherlands 51M 16M 3.2 France 29M 60M 0.5 Finland 20M 5M 4.0 Italy 14M 58M 0.2 Norway 21M 5M 4.2 Sweden 24M 9M 2.6 Spain 17M 40M 0.4 I suspect that disregarding the coastline (which is included in my figures) would probably cost the Scandinavian countries a few ranks in this league. Coastline factor doesn't affect larger countries that much (but still strange that Italy should have so little - must investigate quality of border polygon). It is probably not unreasonable that once the road network is complete in a European country, we'll look at a ratio not unlike the NL figure. This would suggest that both the UK and Germany are about 1/3 there. Of course this is very simplistic and I believe you will come up with much better measures of progress. Let's hear your numbers ;-) (Among other things, NL is known as a very densely populated place - UK has 9 times the area of NL but only 3 times the population -, so those map features that tend to fill the available land even if sparsely populated will mean that the "destination bytes per capita" ratio for places like UK or DE will be higher than 3.) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
