There was a similar study that has been done in Wikipedia - and it got similar results. Then somebody else did some closer studies, and found that the last edit may have been done by one of the 10%, but they were often cosmetic cleanups. The bulk of creation was done by other users. I wonder how much this applies to mapping.
2009/12/18 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) <[email protected]>: > The graph looks the same if I remove the top 5 user accounts (all greater > than 1% of the data and between them totalling 39% of all way data) however > the amount contributed by the top 10% of users (ignoring the top 5) reduces > to 91.5%. So basically the 90/10 rule appears to apply for normal > contributions made by the humble mapper. This is in line with what I see > locally in my own patch. > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
