I've been looking at different ways to show how people are participating in Project of the Week / Month for a while but without really finding a great solution. For mapping in specific areas, a before / after rendering is nice, but there is no "instant gratification" from that. And we prefer projects that allow mappers to participate and map close to home, where their local knowledge is a tremendous benefit.
I added graphs recently for some projects, so that you can see, nominally, the number of objects in the OSM database. Sadly, when looking at frequently used tags, a week of contributions might not make much of an impression on a simple graph of the total. Based on feedback from project participants, I've added a bit more to the graphs. First is a "Recent" line, which shows the number of objects added to the database recently. Recently means nominally, in the previous hour. It isn't perfect, and it isn't gratification that is as "instant" as we might like it, but my server can keep up with providing these numbers. And from day to day, or even morning to evening, it is easier to see the scale of user contributions of a specific type of object. For example, recent project place_of_worship now shows a "recent" line and text below that suggests the users add ~1.7 pow points per hour, and 3.3 pow polygons per hour. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/2010/Dec_22#Results The current Project of the Month, buildings, has an additional feature on the graph, suggested by PotW participants. The "PotM" line indicates the start and end of the Project of the Month period on the graph. This should allow us to see the effect of a PotM, by clearly indicating when the project was active, and showing contribution rates before, during and after. At some point after a project, a static graph can be left on the project page for a permanent record. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week#Results So. What do you think? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
