Matthias I like the sound of this. Not only useful research, but useful for the active OSM community, and for building new communities. A question I get often is "what does OSM look like in X country"? These kind of community statistics, easily accessible, would be great step towards this.
Similar, and very brief, thoughts at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Stats#Thoughts_on_improved_metrics Privacy, I only see the issue with private messages. Easy enough to focus on datamining other channels. -Mikel == Mikel Maron == +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron ________________________________ From: Matthias Meißer <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, March 20, 2011 10:05:10 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] Analysing the OSM community Hi there, I'm thinking about doing some research on our community itself. I would like to do a statistical approach to analyse our commmunication channels -mailinglists -Forums -wiki -OSM private messages -OSM changesets to be able to do some datamining e.g. 'most mappers work strictly local', 'users just reading mailinglists in their native language',... But as far as I know, this informations are unvailable to the public, so I had to use the main system instance. I'm not that sure who might be the right person to talk with, cause of the different aspects e.g. technical, privacy,.... Matthias _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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