Edit count

Some tools track how many edits or changesets a user has saved to the OpenStreetMap database.

Each user profile page of the Web front end displays the changeset count next to the "Edits" link, which leads to the changeset list. This count is based on the details of a user method of the OSM API. It does not count empty changesets.

iD automatically tags changesets with changesets_count=* so that tracking tools like OSMCha can filter changesets by the changeset author's experience level.

On How did you contribute?, the "Map changes" indicator sums the edits within each changeset. This number is usually higher than the changeset count, because a changeset usually contains many edits. However, for some users, the changeset count may be higher than the edit count, because the changeset count does not include empty changesets.