On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Peter Wendorff <[email protected]> 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, that was around the 13th of September 2009 (anyone know if there >>> was a special occasion arount that time?), it is the second highest >>> number >>> yet. Furthermore, with the news so fresh, perhaps we will still beat the >>> record. >>> >> Well, to answer my own question if we can beat the record of most new >> mappers in a week, it is a resounding yes. This week (beginning 8th of >> March) saw nearly 3300 new mappers, clearly beating the old record! >> >> Richard Fairhurst pointed out that the old record was set in the week >> Monopoly City Streets launched (a large scale internet game using >> OpenStreetMap data), so again due to a popular user of OpenStreetMap. >> >> So the more large sites use OSM, the faster the mapping community grows >> and >> therefore it is imho import for OSM and its community to care about its >> data >> consumers as it benefits from them even if they don't "give back". >> >> Kai >> > On the other hand it might be worth to look on the contributions of these > additional users. > How much do they contribute? Do they do more than adding their home or their > own shop?
How is this different than any other new user? We have 120,000 accounts (52% of accounts with any edits) with nothing but 1 or 2 changesets and 180,000 (78%) with fewer than 10 changesets. And those numbers are from before this week. So I say new users are new users are new users, no matter where they come from. Most will make minimal changes. Some will do their town/neighborhood and a very few will become ongoing active contributers. Toby _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
