On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Inge Wallin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2008 13:59:32 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: >> The latest charts are now online [1] and they show that the number of >> contributors has dropped in the last couple of months. The number of new >> users signing up each day hasn't changed much. >> >> Is it the northern hemisphere winter kicking in? >> Has the credit crunch or fuel prices made a difference? >> Students returning to studies? > > I'd say winter. It's definitely the case for me (Sweden) and if you look at > the statistics you will find exactly the same dip during the same period last > year.
i've just had a look at the statistics for POIs mapped and road length mapped over the past 12 months in the UK and Germany. i can't see any dip last year. but then our winters don't compare to sweden's :-) however, the recent drop-off in mappers correlates very nicely with the fall in non-business sunshine hours. and is slightly correlated with mean daytime temperature (at least in the UK). >> If anyone out there who was contributing in the summer and has now stopped >> could share the reasons I might help shed some light. > > I haven't actually stopped, it's just slowed down. But I imagine others that > could stop temporarily. i've pretty much stopped - the flash on my camera drains the battery too quickly for night-time mapping... cheers, matt _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
