In the discussion about the license change, somebody mentioned the idea that we might have to delete contributions by users who refuse to agree to the license change or by users who we fail to contact.
I have no idea if that suspicion is real or not, but it made me think: Has anybody tried to estimate the size of contributions from an individual user? Only counting the number of edits doesn't say much, because a user can make many small edits to convert roundabouts from squares to circles, another user contributes streetnames to an already mapped city, a third user has mapped the country roads of an entire county. We sometimes hear that OSM has 100,000 registered users, but many haven't contributed much. Well, how many have contributed much? Who contributed the most? For a particular region, such as Sweden, who are the 20 or 200 most valuable contributors? Do we know? I think this has an interest (or at least curiosity) on its own, quite independent of the license change. -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
