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Comment on Editor Popularity by miblon

miblon — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:39:22 +0000

I am just curious, but is there a “others” category? And what distinct editors outside the 3 major ones are actually being used at a more or less significant rate?

Comment on Editor retention by Ant

Ant — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:10:36 +0000

This is fascinating, nicely done. is there any way to correlate how many nodes / ways / relations affected per editor, or perhaps an “average amount of change” per changeset, per editor?

Another stat I think might be interesting is if it’s possible to count number of editors used per user – eg: 70% use 1 editor, 20% used 2 editors, etc

Comment on Editor retention by Editing programs for OSM and user retention. | J2ME GPS

Editing programs for OSM and user retention. | J2ME GPS — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:20:29 +0000

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Comment on Editor retention by Vid the Kid

Vid the Kid — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:30:09 +0000

I use both JOSM and Potlatch, and I find that each is suited better to different tasks. If I’m going to do a variety of edits along a course (such as a highway) then I’ll tend to use Potlatch because the Yahoo aerial is super-convenient, and I might not know ahead of time exactly what I’ll need to edit. On the other hand, if I’m going to make a lot of adjustments in a well-defined area and/or on an easily-definable subset of OSM data over a very large area, JOSM works better.

Examples for JOSM:
Fixes and adjustments to boundary data (such as Ohio’s counties, or the state of Alaska)
Systematic tagging adjustments to a city’s main road network (with help from xapi)
Anything involving superrelations

Examples for Potlatch:
Applying route relations
Cleaning up highway details (typically while applying route relations)
Drawing natural and landuse areas
Drawing buildings
Merging boundaries with physical features
Quick entry of information recently observed in the field

Comment on Editor retention by Russell Harrison

Russell Harrison — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:52:20 +0000

I found that JOSM was the only editor that was really useful for getting significant work done. I like Merkaartor a bunch but its got some rough edges that need to be cleaned up. The flash editors are basically useless for all but the most simple edits. At least that’s been my personal experience.

Comment on OSM Without Delay – SotM10 Talk by SOTM 2010: looking back — GIS programmer writing Python in Emacs.

SOTM 2010: looking back — GIS programmer writing Python in Emacs. — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:46:17 +0000

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Comment on OSM Without Delay – SotM10 Talk by State of the Map 2010: OpenStreetMap se extiende comercialmente | Tagzania Services

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:09:57 +0000

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Comment on Icons 0.3 by Micheal

Micheal — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:55:03 +0000

compact but useful icons of proper size great work.

Comment on Editor retention by igorbrejc.net » Fresh Catch For December 8th

igorbrejc.net » Fresh Catch For December 8th — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:02:31 +0000

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Comment on Editor retention by OpenStreetMap Chile » Blog Archive » Retención segun Editor

OpenStreetMap Chile » Blog Archive » Retención segun Editor — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:39:02 +0000

[...] Editor 5 de Diciembre de 2009 Publicado en Comparación, General, Otros Matt Amos escribió un artículo en su blog, en el que saca algunas conclusiones a partir de datos estadísticos de los [...]