Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely:  describes the results of an analysis of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) database for the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland (correct to April 2011). 15, 640 OSM ways (polygons and polylines), resulting in 316, 949 unique versions of these objects, re extracted and analysed from the OSM database for the UK and Ireland. In our analysis  only considered “heavily edited” objects in OSM: objects which have been edited 15 or more times. Our results show that there is no strong relationship beten increasing numbers of contributors to a given object and the number of tags (metadata) assigned to it. 87% of contributions/edits to these objects are performed by 11% of the total 4128 contributors. In 79% of edits additional spatial data (nodes) are added to objects. The results in this paper do not attempt to evaluate the OSM data as good/poor quality but rather informs potential consumers of OSM data that the data itself is changing over time. In developing a better understanding of the characteristics of “heavily edited” objects there may be opportunities to use historical analysis in working towards quality indicators for OSM in the future.
['Peter Mooney', 'Padraig Corcoran']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Characteristics of Heavily Edited Objects in OpenStreetMap
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