Last weekend Frederik and Richard asked me if I could give some additional information on the „How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?“ webpage. So here we go. Below the prior, familiar chart which shows the contributions per month, you will find two new charts. The first one shows the number of changesets per weekday and the second one the number of changesets per hour.
Additionally I added an output that roughly estimates what type of mapper the contributor is, based on his/her number of contributions (changesets). However, I will give no warranty regarding the group or type of mapper that each individual contributor falls into and I think you will figure out the different groups of mappers by yourself anyway 😉
The following picture highlights the new things on my webpage:
Most of you already know it, you will find “How Did You Contribute to OpenStreetMap?” here: http://hdyc.neis-one.org
thx @ Frederik & Richard for the idea
thx @ maɪˈæmɪ Dennis
*Update* (2020-06-11) What are the different requirements for your #HDYC type of #mapper? See
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14 responses to “What type of Mapper are You?”
Nice extra details.
On your weekday map Thursday would usually be abbreviated to Thu not Tur.
Thx!
And ooops, sorry for the typo…
Any chance to get a breakdown of the differen mapper types per site visitors? I’ve got the feeling there are only a few “crazy mappers”…
I’m working on that … Will we see each other @ the FOSSGIS in Dessau tomorrow?
I wonder where one can find a description of the different mapper types and the criteria for the respective assignments.
Sorry, there isn’t any description online. It is roughly based on the number of changesets of a member.
Thanks. If there is no information elsewhere and what are the different mapper types (in which order?)? (I have in mind to include the link and some basic information in the OSM-WIKI.) Testing different names I know I found
* A Hit-and-Run Mapper,
* A Newbie,
* A Casual Mapper,
* A Heavy Mapper,
* A Heavy Mapper 2.0,
* An Addicted Mapper,
* A Crazy Mapper
* A Bot 😉 (whatever that may be)
PS: If you try [http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Walter%20Schl%C3%B6gl] you will see that there is no smiley behind “A Bot” but just “;)”
Hi Rennhenn, thank you for your comment, but attached a complete list of *all* types of mappers inclusive the number of changesets she or he needs for the next type:
<25 Changesets: A Hit-and-Run Mapper
<100 Changesets: A Newbie
< 500 Changesets: A Casual Mapper
<1000 Changesets: A Heavy Mapper
<2500 Changesets: A Heavy Mapper 2.0
<5000 Changesets: An Addicted Mapper
<10000 Changesets: A Crazy Mapper
<20000 Changesets: An Ueber Mapper
<30000 Changesets: An Epic Mapper
>30000 Changesets: A Bot 😉
I hope that helps.
All the best,
Pascal
Hey, great site! I love stats pages like these for big projects.
The number of changesets isn’t really a fair indicator of mapper contributions. It should be calculated on number of nodes/ways touched or created (maybe divided by length of service??). I wouldn’t be surprised if potlatch users made lots of very small changesets but JOSM users ( like me, recently ) tend to spend a long time working offline and upload one much larger changeset. Is there any way to see if this is true? Indeed just looking at my profile it looks likely because the piechart shows 67% of my changesets were using the potlatch editor which I haven’t really used for years.
As mentioned before somewhere, a way of showing a users editor of choice over time would be interesting. I know I was sucked in using potlatch because it was so straightforward but soon yearned after some of the more complicated features of JOSM.
Anyway, thanks for building a really interesting stats page!
Hi Rob, thanks, I agree and I am working on a new method …
Hey Pascal
Not sure I understand the new method – I’ve just passed 2000 changesets and have suddenly gone from Heavy Mapper 2.0 to ‘A Bot ;)’.
I’m most certainly not a bot, in fact I like being a heavy mapper – it more accurately describes what happens to you when you spend too much time armchair mapping!
Cheers!
Tom
Hi Tom,
thank you very much for your comment. Yes, you’re right. Just changed the bot detection. Have fun.
All the best,
Pascal
Great work. don’t tell my wife, I’m a Bot now;)