The problem with your analysis is pretty simple - maybe those people left because the site was crap, not because they inherently don't like adding more than 10 things. Maybe if we make it better, they will add a lot more.
On Feb 21, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > Instead of whining about the good and and and the ugly of osm.org and > Potlatch and speculating some stats who is contributing to osm > > # Planet + daily diff from 2010-02-20 > total users, with > 0 objects in a planet file: 66949 > total users, with > 10 objects in a planet file: 42450 > > # North America extract from Nov 2009 > total users, with > 0 objects: 8043 > total users, with > 10 objects: 4723 > > # Germany from Geofabrik > total users, with > 0 objects: 24172 > total users, with > 10 objects: 16421 > > users with less than 10 objects are probably not active anymore and their > contributions have been reworked or they haven't done anything useful at all. > an even stricter user count quoted from recent talk > 8173 as of the beginning of the month, I think. > See http://www.flickr.com/photos/itoworld/4360166105 > > Don't have the total number of users but remember it was > 130k long time back > > Now my speculations. > 1/3 -1/2 of users with an account are present in planet > 2/3 of active users contributed more than the Potlatch live mode error in > their first and last edits > the stricter definition of active users reduces these numbers to 1/8 > +1/3 of active users in germany > > Except for germany I would say > Osm contributions is still a project for geeks and this will not change > anytime soon. That's totally moronic. > OSB or other bug entry systems for non mappers are pointless until the > experienced user base is big enough to be willing to work on bugs rather > their own interests. No, we need to keep innovating not living in 1991. > > OSB is really cool idea but definitely lacks 2 features > - add pictures, now all smart-phones have gps and camera. a pic will tell > more than any description. this is easy for anyone to take pics of turn > restrictions, speed limits, all kinds of POI. I use Josm with geotagged pics > and this is better than anything else and much faster than notebooks, walking > papers … > - no contact info. as a mapper it's not possible to verify and ask for more > details. sure anonymous bugs should be allowed but many people are willing to > share their contact email and will love the idea to get points for a certain > number of bugs, or a voting system ala amazon reviews might attract non > mappers. > > > Yours &c. Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
