<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" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/index.php?item=countries</a><div>
<br></div><div><div style>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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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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</tbody></table></div><div><br></div><div style>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 style><br></div><div style>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 style><div style>We need publicity!</div></div><div style>
<div style>Increase diversity of mappers by attracting more women and minority mappers</div></div><div style><div style>Support for local groups</div></div><div style><div style>OSM Ambassadors (Like Fedora Ambassadors if you are familiar with the linux distribution Fedora)</div>
</div></blockquote><div><div style><br></div><div style>Cheers,</div>-- <br><div>Clifford</div><div><br></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div>
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