On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Simon Poole <[email protected]> wrote: > > You must have misunderstood something there, the top 50'000 (roughly 10% > of all) or so mappers have contributed essentially all (roughly 95%) > data to OSM. The long tail is not unimportant, but from a pure volume > point of view OSM is very dependent on its core contributors. Not that > this is a surprise or different than any other similar enterprise. >
Keep in mind the type of contribution is different. This year I edited 250,000 trees with a bad tag. That's a huge number of nodes, but not a significant contribution of knowledge. The "long tail" editors on the other hand may be supplying data in unique ways requiring local knowledge.
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