Kai Krueger wrote
This imho shows that the publicity of Apple and Foursquare using OSM
directly resulted in new mappers for OSM. Although it isn't the complete
record, that was around the 13th of September 2009 (anyone know if there
was a special occasion arount that time?), it is the
Am 16.03.2012 08:31, schrieb Kai Krueger:
Kai Krueger wrote
This imho shows that the publicity of Apple and Foursquare using OSM
directly resulted in new mappers for OSM. Although it isn't the complete
record, that was around the 13th of September 2009 (anyone know if there
was a special
Peter Wendorff wrote:
It's nothing to say against these users, even if it's not more, but I hope to be
wrong while guessing, that mappers invited by some of these user projects
aren't necessarily interested to become part of a community of mappers and to
participate in that manner.
To conclude:
Hey,
There are quite a few examples of users coming from one of these big pushes
and then just doing it - for instance, we were working on Campo Grande,
because a foursquare user, muzito, complained that most of the city was
missing. The editing quickly became all conflicted because another user
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Peter Wendorff
wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote:
Am 16.03.2012 08:31, schrieb Kai Krueger:
Kai Krueger wrote
This imho shows that the publicity of Apple and Foursquare using OSM
directly resulted in new mappers for OSM. Although it isn't the complete
record,
Making 60 changesets, spending a lot of time editing OpenStreetMap, and
going from being a public critic of the maps (versus Google Maps, of
course) to a public advocate is a big deal, even if it's just one person.
A 52% active user percentage isn't terribly low: it's similar to services
like
On 03/16/2012 03:39 PM, Tom MacWright wrote:
What's the point of being so dismissive of new users, and pessimistic on
whether they'll continue contributing?
Nobody in this thread is dismissive of new users. They are dismissive of
(useless) statistics.
---
m.v.g.,
Cartinus
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Tom MacWright t...@macwright.org wrote:
Making 60 changesets, spending a lot of time editing OpenStreetMap, and
going from being a public critic of the maps (versus Google Maps, of course)
to a public advocate is a big deal, even if it's just one person.
A 52%
On 2012-03-09 08:50, Frederik Ramm wrote:
On 03/09/12 01:10, Martijn van Exel wrote:
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/08/apple-using-openstreetmap-data-in-iphoto-for-ios/
- interesting to see the irrational Apple fanboy commentary..
It's a recurring motive. Company switches to OSM - users
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote:
Thanks for summarizing Richard. Really amazing to see the amount of response
this is generating. Only some of the Apple-specific blogs are catching on to
this, MacRumors among them:
This is awesome.
I've reposted it here, after tracking down URLs for each of the stories and
comments you mention:
http://mike.teczno.com/notes/nice-problem.html
-mike.
On Mar 8, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
* 3500 tiles per second. Seriously. In Grant's words on
On Viernes, 9 de Marzo de 2012 00:36:24 Richard Fairhurst escribió:
* 3500 tiles per second. Seriously. In Grant's words on Twitter:
Massive jump in #OpenStreetMap traffic due 2 Apple news: t.co/nB4ffgYy
Fighting fires 2 keep systems up
I'm guessing my transparent map comparison is responsible
* 3500 tiles per second. Seriously. In Grant's words on Twitter:
Massive jump in #OpenStreetMap traffic due 2 Apple news: t.co/nB4ffgYy
Fighting fires 2 keep systems up
* switch2osm.org fell over. Yep, so many people wanting to find out
about switching to OpenStreetMap that WordPress crapped
Hi,
On 03/09/12 01:10, Martijn van Exel wrote:
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/08/apple-using-openstreetmap-data-in-iphoto-for-ios/
- interesting to see the irrational Apple fanboy commentary..
It's a recurring motive. Company switches to OSM - users complain.
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