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Analysis a reviews on Mangrove.reviews
MapComplete has - for some thematic maps - the ability to leave a review on an entity with Mangrove.Reviews.. Up till now, I had no idea how much this feature was used. However, due to technical reasons I had another look to the reviews module and discovered the 'download all'-option on mangrove.reviews
Mangrove Clients
The analysis was made with data from 20 january 2023, downloaded around 17:00 UTC time.
This data contained 660 reviews. As the website making the review is recorded, we can make a breakdown of the top websites:
- https://mangrove.reviews is unsuprisingly the most popular website to make reviews on, with 318 reviews made
- MapComplete is the second (and the biggest 'external' website), with 192 reviews (of which 13 are made with the development version)
- toggenburg.swiss is third, with 35 reviews
A variety of smaller websites follows, each with a few reviews made. At first glance, most of them seem to be swiss or german.
Furthermore, there are 5 reviews made by localhost:1234 and 7 by localhost:5000. The former is probably me, testing the creation of reviews while developing.
The full table is listed below.
Themes
It seems that pet owners gave reviews the most. The 'pets'-theme - first known as the 'dog' theme - yielded 35 reviews in total (if summed). The 'Pin je Punt'-campagin by Visit Flanders (which included pubs and cafés) is a close second with 29 reviews, followed by the shops theme.
While it might be surprising that the pets-theme has such a high number of reviews, the reason for this is straight-forward: the review-module is placed on top of the infobox for vets, whereas most other layers do have the images block there.
| Theme | Review count |
|---|---|
| https://mapcomplete.org/pets (incl 14 reviews made under the previous name 'dog') | 35 |
| https://mapcomplete.org/toerisme_vlaanderen | 29 |
| https://mapcomplete.org/shops | 28 |
| https://mapcomplete.org/food | 18 |
| https://mapcomplete.org/playgrounds | 16 |
| https://mapcomplete.org/cafes_and_pubs | 14 |
| https://mapcomplete.org/personal | 14 |
| https://mapcomplete.org/campersite | 9 |
| https://mapcomplete.org/sport_pitches | 9 |
| https://mapcomplete.org/fritures | 8 |
| https://mapcomplete.org/climbing | 7 |
| https://mapcomplete.org/onwheels | 3 |
| https://mapcomplete.org/hackerspaces | 1 |
| lgbtmap (theme on a fork) | 1 |
Language
At last, due to the full client URL being saved, we also know what language the user interface was in when the review was made:
| language | count |
|---|---|
| en | 77 |
| nl | 37 |
| de | 27 |
| ru | 13 |
| fr | 9 |
| da | 6 |
| es | 2 |
| unkown | 21 |
Locations
And as map makers, a quick geolocation-analysis can't miss as well.
Unsurprisingly, most of the reviews are in Europe:
When zooming in, a clear cluster in Switzerland and Flanders is visible:
When keeping only the Reviews made with MapComplete, the cluster in Flanders remains:
(Copyright: pins are Mangrove Reviews, background map is OpenStreetMap of course)
Conclusions
So, no big conclusions and surprises in this little analysis. The reviews are being used - but not very much, especially in comparison with the image-upload feature. Placing the reviews higher up might help or including in into the questions flow. The core question is how important reviews are within the vision of MapComplete.