I wonder which editors are popular in which countries. Is this data easily accessible anywhere?
I know the raw data can be obtained from the changeset dumps but I wonder if this has been done already.
Yes, it is. The best stats site I know is OSMstats.
Clarification, by āeditorā I mean the program used to edit OSM, e.g. iD, JOSM and not the mappers themselves. Iād like to know which are the top editors per country, and I donāt think thatās available on OSMstats unless I am missing something.
Iām not sure by country, but here are some interesting data.
The āissueā is that you need to geocode the changesets which is a bit of a pain, but Iāve done that before and if I could be suitably motivated I could do it for editor stats.
The main issue is that there ilikely isnāt anything very interesting in the data at least for the editors with a large market share. The only large regional special thing that you will see is deflock in the states, see Simon Poole: "@aaron@social.tromdienste.de found the #OpenStreeā¦" - OSM Town | Mapstodon for OpenStreetMap
Thank you for the feedback. It seems no such service exists so Iām working on a script for this. My data-flow is a bit unconventional so I wonder if someone has some improvement to this:
Only fetch the last ~100 MiB from the Planet.OSM changesets-latest.osm.bz2 dump file using Range headers. This seems to be the simplest and most reliable way to fetch the last monthās changesets. Current full size is ~8GiB.
Use bzip2recover to stream the xml out of the incomplete file. compare min/max lat/lon of each changeset to some country dataset (e.g. Natural Earth / OSM) to pin it to a country.
The rest is just counting changesets per country.