Quoting [email protected]:
Maybe it's dangerous to say, but I think that the growth of the Dutch community has been negatively affected due to the AND import. The scale of the Netherlands is not comparable to the US and Canada, and I think it would have been feasible to have the road network in the country mapped completely one or two years ago. As a result, the Dutch community is relatively small, compared to the UK and Germany. Not that many OSM related events are being organized, and those who are organized often have a low turnout.
To be clear, the AND import was discussed and agreed upon by the Dutch community at that time (and I wasn't even registered as a OSM user). It's only a few years afterwards that I sometimes think what the map/community would have been if the AND import has not happened. A typical 20/20 hindsight case...
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