2010/8/8 Dirk-Lüder Kreie <[email protected]> > Am 08.08.2010 16:59, schrieb John Smith: > > On 9 August 2010 00:58, Erik Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Australia 2 people per km^2 > >> Sweden 21 people per km^2 > > > > Canada is ~3 people per km^2... > > You seem to forget that the most interesting Data (to most people) is > also where the people are. > Forests, lakes, shorelines and many more features can all be mapped from > NASA sat imagery and put unter any license, even PD. > > So I don't think OSM Contributor effort will result in "second best" > Data *at* *all*. > > For example: Germany does have very good geodata from the state, just > that those maps are not available to OSM, so we are mapping Germany > ourselves. The Netherlands (even more densely populated btw.) had most > of their data imported. > Has this damaged the German OSM mapping effort? Not at all. I would > rather argue that the AND import has hindered OSM community growth in NL. > > So even if you lose data, it's not really that big an issue, provided > you come up with a way to save work done by OSM Mappers wherever possible. > > With enough (motivated) people we can take any data loss, and rebuild > our database to be better within a short timeframe. >
Any data loss will be a serious morale blow. Just the talk of data loss is already having an impact. > It may sound arrogant, but if you look at it rationally, we could even > compensate for mappers demotivated by any data loss by the growth of our > community. > An expectation that the community will continue to grow is unrealistic. The following figures, from Nick Black, show a 1% drop in active contributors in one month. This suggests that the size of the community may already have peaked. Data loss will not improve this picture. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Nick Black <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > The % of users actively contributing to OSM each month has fallen > from 5.7% in March 2010 (13,675 / 238,985) to 4.7% in June (297,041 / > 14,018). > 80n
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