On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier <j...@liotier.org> wrote:
> Looking at the profiles of nearby mappers displayed on my profile page's > map, I am astonished to find that most of them have made zero edits. > Those people went through the effort of registering (some even added an > avatar picture) but then did not use their account for anything - no edits, > no traces, nothing. Why ? Are these mere spam registrations or are we > actually losing good potential mappers in the first hours of their life > as Openstreetmap users ? How many of them do we have ? Do we have logs > that we can analyze to understand how they came to Openstreetmap and how > they dropped out ? My opinion is that they are too intimidated to actually make an edit. I have no data to back that up just my own experience. One of the features I'd really like to see is a way to send mapping party announcements to people in the mapping party area. Of course we'd need a way for people to opt out, but inviting people out to become part of a community is a good way to engage more users. Lacking the skills, I hoping that someone steps to the plate and codes this feature. Any takers? -- Clifford OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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