<div dir="ltr">If someone can hook me up with a logo polo and/or a car sign or two, I wouldn't mind working the shirt into my work rotation, and my car makes it all over Oklahoma. 386 miles today alone, average around 150 miles a day. Occasionally makes longer trips closer to the panhandle, Dallas metro, into NW Arkansas, SW Missouri, and somewhat more rarely into southern Colorado and southern Kansas. Rare outliers being metro Portland (sadly, I had to leave a few weeks before SOTM; would be nice if we could get one centrally located for most of America instead of hugging the coastlines), bay area (again, same trip out of Portland, weeks before SOTM San Francisco was announced), and southern California. Trips to California will likely be along the I 40 corridor or towards the bay area and Portland on US highways (I 25, 70, 80 and 84 are boring on a level I wouldn't wish on anyone for a trip that isn't really that much faster than the US highways; at least 40 has options for nearby chunks of old 66 and the only real mindnumbing segment is crossing the Cimarron, readily bypassed by detouring through Philmont Scout Ranch to US 412 instead).</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Clifford Snow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clifford@snowandsnow.us" target="_blank">clifford@snowandsnow.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">We have over 200 mappers contributing to OSM in the US driving us to second place, but way behind Germany. Look at OSM Stats for the details. <a href="http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/index.php?item=countries" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px" target="_blank">http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/index.php?item=countries</a><div>
<br></div><div><div>Second place is good, but I wonder what we could be if we made it our goal to increase the number of active mappers. When you look at our numbers against our population, there is a lot of room for growth. See the chart of the top 10 below. The data was taken from osmstats along with population data from Wikipedia. </div>
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<table cellspacing="0" cols="9" border="0">
<colgroup span="9" width="98"></colgroup>
<tbody><tr>
<td height="53" align="CENTER">Rank</td>
<td align="CENTER">Country</td>
<td align="CENTER">Population</td>
<td align="CENTER">Mappers</td>
<td align="CENTER">Nodes Created</td>
<td align="CENTER">Nodes Modified</td>
<td align="CENTER">Deleted Nodes</td>
<td align="CENTER">New Nodes Per Mapper</td>
<td align="CENTER">Mappers per 1M Population</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19" align="RIGHT">1</td>
<td align="LEFT">Germany</td>
<td align="RIGHT"><font face="Times New Roman">80,493,000 </font></td>
<td align="RIGHT">564</td>
<td align="RIGHT">72992</td>
<td align="RIGHT">40981</td>
<td align="RIGHT">7174</td>
<td align="RIGHT">129</td>
<td align="RIGHT">7.01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19" align="RIGHT">2</td>
<td align="LEFT">United States</td>
<td align="RIGHT"><font face="Times New Roman">316,278,000 </font></td>
<td align="RIGHT">202</td>
<td align="RIGHT">62036</td>
<td align="RIGHT">18103</td>
<td align="RIGHT">23815</td>
<td align="RIGHT">307</td>
<td align="RIGHT">0.64</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19" align="RIGHT">3</td>
<td align="LEFT">Russia</td>
<td align="RIGHT"><font face="Times New Roman">143,400,000 </font></td>
<td align="RIGHT">191</td>
<td align="RIGHT">84192</td>
<td align="RIGHT">17872</td>
<td align="RIGHT">3008</td>
<td align="RIGHT">441</td>
<td align="RIGHT">1.33</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19" align="RIGHT">4</td>
<td align="LEFT">France</td>
<td align="RIGHT"><font face="Times New Roman">65,684,000 </font></td>
<td align="RIGHT">182</td>
<td align="RIGHT">116333</td>
<td align="RIGHT">14463</td>
<td align="RIGHT">13497</td>
<td align="RIGHT">639</td>
<td align="RIGHT">2.77</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19" align="RIGHT">5</td>
<td align="LEFT">Italy</td>
<td align="RIGHT">59,704,082 </td>
<td align="RIGHT">116</td>
<td align="RIGHT">42873</td>
<td align="RIGHT">10047</td>
<td align="RIGHT">2603</td>
<td align="RIGHT">370</td>
<td align="RIGHT">1.94</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19" align="RIGHT">6</td>
<td align="LEFT">United Kingdom</td>
<td align="RIGHT"><font face="Times New Roman">63,181,775 </font></td>
<td align="RIGHT">113</td>
<td align="RIGHT">36210</td>
<td align="RIGHT">4111</td>
<td align="RIGHT">2233</td>
<td align="RIGHT">320</td>
<td align="RIGHT">1.79</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19" align="RIGHT">7</td>
<td align="LEFT">Poland</td>
<td align="RIGHT"><font face="Times New Roman">38,533,299 </font></td>
<td align="RIGHT">91</td>
<td align="RIGHT">37578</td>
<td align="RIGHT">4271</td>
<td align="RIGHT">4112</td>
<td align="RIGHT">413</td>
<td align="RIGHT">2.36</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19" align="RIGHT">8</td>
<td align="LEFT">Austria</td>
<td align="RIGHT"><font face="Times New Roman">8,464,554 </font></td>
<td align="RIGHT">77</td>
<td align="RIGHT">18564</td>
<td align="RIGHT">4414</td>
<td align="RIGHT">948</td>
<td align="RIGHT">241</td>
<td align="RIGHT">9.10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19" align="RIGHT">9</td>
<td align="LEFT">Spain</td>
<td align="RIGHT"><font face="Times New Roman">47,059,533 </font></td>
<td align="RIGHT">70</td>
<td align="RIGHT">25214</td>
<td align="RIGHT">3745</td>
<td align="RIGHT">712</td>
<td align="RIGHT">360</td>
<td align="RIGHT">1.49</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="19" align="RIGHT">10</td>
<td align="LEFT">Belgium</td>
<td align="RIGHT"><font face="Times New Roman">11,153,405 </font></td>
<td align="RIGHT">52</td>
<td align="RIGHT">16430</td>
<td align="RIGHT">2201</td>
<td align="RIGHT">1670</td>
<td align="RIGHT">316</td>
<td align="RIGHT">4.66</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table></div><div><br></div><div>I'd like to suggest that we adopt a goal of increasing the number of active mappers in the US. I'm not sure how we accomplish it, but I'd like to solicit suggestions and feedback. Lets set some target goals. I think this is a worth while project to work on. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I'll start by just listing a few of my thoughts:</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div>We need publicity!</div></div><div>
<div>Increase diversity of mappers by attracting more women and minority mappers</div></div><div><div>Support for local groups</div></div><div><div>OSM Ambassadors (Like Fedora Ambassadors if you are familiar with the linux distribution Fedora)</div>
</div></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br><div>Clifford</div><div><br></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div>
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