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From: Werner Hoch werner...@gmx.de
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:37:22
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero
edits ?
Am
On 04/13/2013 03:33 PM, Simon Poole wrote:
While there is clearly room for improvement in converting account
creators to contributors [..]
What about asking them why they registered and did not edit the map ?
Would a one-off mailing to users who registered more than three months
ago and have no
One of my collegeas signed up a long time ago, but never made an edit. I
asked him today, why he signed up. He vaguely remembers that some Android
app he was using hinted (or he understood) that he should sign up in order
to use the app. He also thought that he might add some footpaths one day,
One of my hypotheses is that there are users which are shy or intimidated
when trying to capture and edit OSM data.
Among others, this was a reason to me to invent Kort [1] - the OSM game
implemented as a rewarding data capturing app, released beginning of this
year (next big release will be mid
On 04/15/2013 12:13 PM, Stefan Keller wrote:
One of my hypotheses is that there are users which are shy or
intimidated when trying to capture and edit OSM data.
So should another survey option be something like I registered but I'm
not so sure about editing anymore ?
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote:
Just a further data point. As of the end of last month we had edits from
324'152 unique UIDs, not quite 30% of all accounts (some of the
changesets are likely to be empty, but the number is still quite a bit
larger than the
Am Sonntag, den 14.04.2013, 23:38 +1000 schrieb Steve Bennett:
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote:
Just a further data point. As of the end of last month we had edits from
324'152 unique UIDs, not quite 30% of all accounts (some of the
changesets are likely
Am 14.04.2013 20:37, schrieb Werner Hoch:
Am Sonntag, den 14.04.2013, 23:38 +1000 schrieb Steve Bennett:
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote:
Just a further data point. As of the end of last month we had edits from
324'152 unique UIDs, not quite 30% of all
Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote:
Am 14.04.2013 20:37, schrieb Werner Hoch:
Am Sonntag, den 14.04.2013, 23:38 +1000 schrieb Steve Bennett:
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch
wrote:
Just a further data point. As of the end of last month we had
edits from
-Original Message-
From: Werner Hoch werner...@gmx.de
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:37:22
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero
edits ?
Am Sonntag, den 14.04.2013, 23:38 +1000 schrieb Steve Bennett:
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:33
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From: Werner Hoch werner...@gmx.de
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:37:22
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero
On 04/13/2013 12:16 PM, SomeoneElse wrote:
On 12/04/2013 23:08, Johan C wrote:
The question is: how do we unlock this giant community potential?
At the risk of being slightly heretical, I think that it's OK that OSM
is a resource that people can use and perhaps update occasionally
without
Am 13.04.2013 13:50, schrieb Jean-Marc Liotier:
.
That is not heretical - it is perfectly fine that some people just want
to add their pet POI and never come back. But that is infinitely more
than the total lack of edit which is what I find puzzling.
I think it is completely
Just a further data point. As of the end of last month we had edits from
324'152 unique UIDs, not quite 30% of all accounts (some of the
changesets are likely to be empty, but the number is still quite a bit
larger than the often quoted 200'000).
While there is clearly room for improvement in
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
2013/4/12 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org
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
On 4/12/2013 8:00 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier 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
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
Most of these are people who didn't read what Openstreetmap was about
before they registered. They most likely thought they would need to
register to _USE_ all the features of Openstreetmap, not contribute to it.
On 04/12/2013 02:00 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
Looking at the profiles of nearby
Cartinus wrote:
Most of these are people who didn't read what Openstreetmap was
about before they registered. They most likely thought they would
need to register to _USE_ all the features of Openstreetmap, not
contribute to it.
+1. You'd be surprised how common this is. Our village
I found osm by accident when searching for a map editing tool. The first
experience was not great - what I got was a Potlatch centred on one line -
representing a street. What do I do now? Move the street - where? Potlatch
has quite minimalistic UI - that makes is simple, but also hides a lot of
Clifford Snow wrote:
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.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:41 PM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.ukwrote:
I suspect that a totally automatic way of doing that might be frowned
upon, but a semi-automatic way would b to load something like
http://resultmaps.neis-one.**org/oooc?zoom=12lat=53.21292**
OSM has got over 1,1 million registered users now. About 20.000 of them
frequently make edits. There's still a lot of opportunities here, because
all registered users at least have some interest in OSM. The question is:
how do we unlock this giant community potential?
Cheers, Johan
2013/4/12
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:00:46 +0200
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
I don't at all want to discourage improvements, the efforts of the WWG,
etc, but at the same time we have to be clear that this kind of ratio
is pretty common amongst crowd sourced projects. For example, if you look
at English Wikipedia's stats, there are over 800K wikipedians (and
note, they've
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