Hi, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: >> 2. Are we in a decline because we are not open enough to non-geeks. >> My answer is "no, we are not in a decline, we are growing" and this >> is supported by statistics. I challenge anybody to show me an area >> of OSM which is actually in decline or even in stagnation (as >> opposed to "not growing as quickly as someone has hoped"). > > Mike answered this already, and this is easy to prove. activity on > talk-us is practically 0, compare it with and canada and their > population size it's obvious, the number of active mappers is only a > handful even in large metropolitan areas.
To prove a decline, you would have to show that there used to be more mappers and they have now left. The fact that there are few mappers is not in itself a reason to be concerned; after all there were very few mappers in the UK five years ago and look where they are now. WITHOUT having an easy to use UI. Does the UK have more technology-savvy people than the US? I should be surprised. > I didn't call for drastic action at all. I am not SteveC. All I like > to see is to do things in a way that we don't scare away mappers and > back to the initial topic don't map for the renderer You said that unless OSM opened itself more to non-geeks it would quickly die. That sounded to me like you wanted to change something. - And change isn't bad generally. But change shouldn't be driven by fear of dying ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
