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Pascal Neis
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Pascal Neis writes Neis One!, a personal blog at neis-one.org about data and science. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Unmapped Places of OpenStreetMap”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for data analysis of OpenStreetMap, such as user activity and Germany map-edit analyses. Commenters cite its posts as sources in discussions about OSM density and contributor activity.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Unmapped Places of OpenStreetMap2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-07-04
- /2012/11/active-users-osm-nov12/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-29
What Hacker News says?
I agree the replies are in good faith, and I'm happy people took the time to respond to me. But somehow the good faith makes things frustrating. Trolls can be ignored, downvoted and banned, but communication problems are complicated. If we have a discussion and nobody changes their mind, something's wrong. About your first link: http://neis-one.org/2012/11/active-users-osm-nov12/ They did precisely what I was advoca…
Comment linking /2012/11/active-users-osm-nov12/
on “OpenStreetMap node density map 2014”Submitted The Unmapped Places of OpenStreetMap as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've experienced the downvote piling on before, it's definitely irritating to make a good faith effort and then have a bunch of people express their disagreement with clicks. I do think that most of the replies are simply politely disagreeing with you, not missing the point you made. You mention the CanVec imports, another issue with the adjustment for population density is that OSM activity around the globe is not…
Comment linking /2012/11/active-users-osm-nov12/
on “OpenStreetMap node density map 2014”Submitted Unmapped Places of OpenStreetMap – 2016 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou can compare the maps here, but that of course ignores a huge amount of "hidden" data: http://mc.bbbike.org/mc/?lon=13.38885&lat=52.51703&zoom=11&n... Then there was a small analysis in Germany in 2012, but obviously a lot has changed since then. http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/4/1/1 (Or just have a look at the images on the German article: http://neis-one.org/2012/01/osm-germany-2007-2011/ )
Comment linking /2012/01/osm-germany-2007-2011/
on “Porting 600k Map Views to OpenStreetMap/MapBox”Submitted Unmapped Places of OpenStreetMap – 2016 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenStreetMap Crowd Report – Season 2015 as a story · 1 points
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