2009/12/20 Ulf Lamping <[email protected]>: > It's up to you to write a tool like this. I would probably love it.
Steve was asking for suggestions to improve his, why do I need to do yet another tool simply for the sake of it? > But I want to avoid the problems that arises when someone stands up and > judges whats an old dying trend and what's a new trend. If Steve would > randomly remove stuff that he thinks is old and irrelevant - would make the > table probably almost useless for me. We all make judgements about tags to use all the time, these decisions are updated as things are updated on wiki pages, as discussions occur on mailing lists and even face to face mapping parties, knowing old trends doesn't mean we should highlight them just because it was a popular way to do things in the past, doesn't mean this is a sane way to continue into the future, there is a good reason things get depreciated. > The current table gives an overview of what the current situation is. What > you are talking about is a trend analysis of what the situation might be in > some months from now. That is an interesting (but different) topic. No, I'm talking what has happened recently, I'm not talking about speculating into the future, I'm talking about setting a cut off point that doesn't make sense to keep looking at old data because of many reasons already pointed out in this email. > If I want to make a map, then I'm probably interested that abutters is used > n-times, so I can judge myself if I want to add it or not. I'm not arguing Just knowing how many times it is used is a pointless exercise, someone might have bulk imported large chunks of data in the past which has no bearing on current best practises. It is foolish to look at raw numbers and not interupt what the bigger context is. > that having an indicator that it's usage numbers are e.g. going up or down > would be a big plus to make good educated decisions here. How can you tell that unless you do trend analysis based on differences over time, which doesn't seem to be currently employed. > But that *is* the current situation. The current situation *is* an average > of old and new stuff. No, that is an overview, not the current situation, the current situation is based on the current trend, not what happened 5 years ago, or what happened due to a massive bulk import. Those are exceptions that will skew trends. > So how do the mappers out there know? From the voices inside their heads? > ;-) There is a lot of people that use information from the wiki -- not just the map features page, map data in their area and suggestions from mailing lists, and just what makes sense based on other tags. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
