OSMDoc is great - it's a shame it's a year out of date. I needed a
more modern breakdown of tag statistics so I decided to write a report
myself - very quick and dirty (no where near as cool as OSMDoc), but
functional to get a breakdown of tag usage. I figured someone else
might like to read it too:
http://www.gamesforlittletimmy.com/TagStats_100811.txt.gz
(6.1MB decompressed, 881K download. The text file is Unix formatted, UTF-8)
Basically the file is a breakdown of the most common tags. If you want
to know what is the most common shop=, amenity=, highway = etc, this
file probably has it. (I skip most of the private spaces like tiger: ,
ksj2:, naptan: etc).
Now for the fun and useless facts part:
* name="Hauptstraße" is the most common name in the world. Used
14,353 times. (Main Street in German as I understand it)
* There are 16,691,461 ways, nodes or relations marked with
building=something. A year ago that number was 2,367,194 -
roughly 7x growth.
* addr:city ="San Diego" is the most common in the world - 367,229
times.
* The top 4 countries by addr:country="" are DK, US, DE, CZ.
* amenity = "swimming_pool" is used 15,436 times. It doesn't even
have a wiki page. leisure = "swimming_pool" (which does have a
wiki page) is used 6,363 times.
* amenity = "place_of_worship" is used 327,501 times - 21% growth
over a year ago. amenity = "parking" is used 407,445 times - 81%
growth over a year ago.
* The most common "street_address"= is "99999 EDITH BLVD NE" - 243
of them in the world. (I suspect import issues)
* There are 315 microbrewery's tagged. This tag didn't exist last year.
* The 5 most common operator = are "Metro Transit" (15,052 times),
"Deutsche Telekom AG" (11,226), "Deutsche Post AG" (9,807),
"Deutsche Post" (7061), "Royal Mail" (5,534)
* The most common brand is "agip" - 1907 instances. Ford is the
most common car brand with 78 instances.
* There are more misspellings of denomination="church_of_england"
(118) than there are denomination="shia" (81) .
denomination="catholic" is the most common - 42143 (109% growth in
a year), but denomination="baptist" may be first next year 33,965
(1700% growth in a year).
* shop=hairdresser jumped from 3,439 a year ago to 10729 this year
(there is an icon in Mapnik and osmarender). shop=furniture grew
from 1,675 a year ago to 4,570 this year (14th most common shop=,
neither Mapnik nor osmarender have an icon for furniture shop's).
* sport=soccer is the most common - 26% of all sport="" tags.
sport="scuba_diving" has 2272 tags now - up 11,200% from last year
(20).
I'm sure you can find some interesting/useless/funny stats.
John
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