I'm quite sure a really extended long tail could be very important for us, not necessarily from a volume point of view, but imagine 200M people in the US just adding their address.
Alas I have not seen any tool in the OSM realm that is simple enough, and cuts out the jargon, to cater for such contributors. Simon Am 15.04.2013 06:24, schrieb Jaakko Helleranta.com: > Not quite sure what Werner wanted to convey with the info about the shape and > numbers of the long tail of OSM (perhaps nothing more than the numbers). > > Anyways, I'd just want to say that the "tiny" 0.1% of the data might well be > a huge number of otherwise missing POIs, place or road names or other map > features' details, tiny corrections to roads, etc. > > It's also likely a thing that has made 100+k people love OSM just a bit more. > > Suddenly 0.1% isn't that small anymore. > > Cheers, > -Jaakko > > Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel > -- > Mobile: +509-37-26 91 54, Skype/GoogleTalk: jhelleranta > > -----Original Message----- > From: Werner Hoch <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:37:22 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero > edits ? > > Am Sonntag, den 14.04.2013, 23:38 +1000 schrieb Steve Bennett: >> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Simon Poole <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Just a further data point. As of the end of last month we had edits from >>> 324'152 unique UIDs, not quite 30% of all accounts (some of the >>> changesets are likely to be empty, but the number is still quite a bit >>> larger than the often quoted 200'000). > I think the quotet 220000 are those mappers that still "own" an active > osm object. (last editor). > >> Is there (or could there be?) a graph of contributions against number >> of u-el-? Might be interesting also to see whether the number of users >> on zero is vastly different to the number of users on one edit, two >> edits etc. > http://www.h-renrew.de/h/osm/osmchecks/03_Statistik/planet/statistic.html > > statistic based only on the last editors. > about 25000 Users only own a single node. > > 90% of all ways and nodes are last edited by about 7000 users. > 99% by about 30000 users. > --> 9% of data, 23000 users > 99.9% 80000 Users > --> 0.9% of data, 50000 users > and the rest: > --> 0.1% of data, 140000 users > > Regards > Werner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
