weeklyOSM Stats

Statistical files for the weeklyOSM, initially static and considering the numbers WN272 (29/09/2015-05/10/2015) to WN768 (03/04/2025-09/04/2025).

> Disclaimer: these datasets are licensed under the GPL 3.0.

> For more information, please refer to https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.pt-br.htm.

> How to refer this research:

SOUTO, R.D. weeklyOSM-stats. Available at https://github.com/raqueldeziderio/weeklyOSM-stats. GPL 3.0. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15263668

> This analysis is under development. To keep contact about this initiative: ivides@ivides.org, a/c: Dr. Raquel Dezidério Souto. Colaborated to this research: Strubbl, derFred and TheFive. 

Scope and general objective

The actual weeklyOSM is multilingual and is considering 15 languages. It has the English version as the standard to the AI translation to the other 14 languages, using the DeepL. Initially, it was published in five other languages - Inglês, Espanhol, Turco, Romeno and Japonês, translated from the [Wochennotiz](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wochennotiz), the German blog, starting in July 2010, http://blog.openstreetmap.de/blog/2010/07/osm-wochennotiz-nr-1/

The objective of this analysis is to prospect the most cited categories and softwares, considering the period from 2015 (WN272) to 2025 (WN768), since the adoption of the OpenStreetMap Blog Collector or OSMBC system, https://github.com/TheFive/osmbc, developed by TheFive.

But... why calculate it?

These statistics can be a proxy for understanding the use of OSM-related software by the OSM mappers community and which categories have received the most attention in various media, such as social networks, blogs, OSMF channels or institutional news sites.

About the files in this dataset

The files with specific selection of software according to the application type - editors, navigators, QA analysis and others, are stored on this dataset and on the folder /selection on GitHub. 

Note: There is another dataset corresponding to the statistics generated by PGSQL queries, please, see at Zenodo.org or in the folder /statistics on the same GitHub above.

The softwares were selected according to these websites and the citation in weeklyOSM's articles:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Comparison_of_editors

https://osm-apps.org/?category=edit ("Improve the map" category)

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_services

https://software.wambachers-osm.website/

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editor_usage_stats

Note: the .csv files has these overall delimiters: comma (,) for records and double quote (") for quote and scape.