There's a interesting tool written by a chap in my area, Peter Ito. http://www.itoworld.com/product/osm/map?area=923:1&show=session:35714:1236607544:1236608289
If you set up an area on it, then you can track the area (via RSS) to see who performs edits on it and when - I use it to track "my" areas to see what other people are up to (and someone's doing some fantastic mapping on the west side of Norwich which is a delight to watch) So a tool like this would be a good way of viewing the last x users to edit an area; this sort of tracking is possible. I don't, however, know of anything capable of dealing with countries, or anything capable of doing the sort of general analysis you speak of. It wouldn't be massively difficult to write, I suspect. Tristan Scott BSc(Hons) 07837 205829 2009/3/10 Lars Aronsson <[email protected]>: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
