Simon Poole wrote: > And. naturally any "fair" ranking should take in to account the time > spent creating and > editing web pages, answering questions (irc and help) and many other > things ....
It should also include real-world communications and advertising the project. A mapper who manages to convince a friend to join does a great service to OSM. In all the rankings, though, the effect will be detrimental for the user: The friend (if active in the same area) will touch objects created by the original mapper, and will fill white spots that the original mapper could have used to boost his object creation counts. Instead of rankings for individual contributors, I prefer attempts to measure progress towards meaningful goals. A "completion" statistic for road names, for example, does encourage mappers to work towards the goal, but at the same time _encourages cooperation_. That's a far better message to send to mappers: * Results count, not the number of nodes you moved to get there. * Cooperation lets you reach your goals faster. -- Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
