Yes, a curving way will likely contain more nodes than a straight way, so simply counting nodes doesn't give a meaningful measure. The real questions are (a) how much of the information has been entered, and (b) how accurate is the information that has been entered. The latter question, in particular, requires local knowledge.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Spain needs OSM love >From :mailto:oskaro...@yahoo.com Date :Tue Feb 15 11:42:15 America/Chicago 2011 Hello, you mean counting the tagged nodes and ways? That sounds dangerous, what if somebody splits highways in small potions? in some places, somebody has imprted hundreds of buildings, but that does not increase very much the quality of a map, then you need to consider separately the main tag (name=x) because that means a lot then there are areas with short streets (medieval quarters) and areas with long streets (suburbs) , etc etc etc... sounds very complicated You would need a lot of time to create a function that can replace the honest opinion of someone who knows a bit about OSM and about the area of interest. I dont think it's worth the effort in my case. --oscar --- On Sun, 2/13/11, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Spain needs OSM love To: "Open Street Map mailing list" <talk@openstreetmap.org> Date: Sunday, February 13, 2011, 11:44 PM On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Oscar Orbe <oskaro...@yahoo.com </mc/compose?to=oskaro...@yahoo.com> > wrote: hello list, here is a ranking of the cities/towns in Spain which need the most OSM love. click 4 times on the last column to see them sorted: http://bit.ly/eUkBpX Wow, what a lot of work. What made you decide to go down the subjective assessment path, rather than just counting the number of OSM entities within a given bounding box? Steve -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org </mc/compose?to=talk@openstreetmap.org> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
