<div dir="ltr">Hi Clifford,<div><br></div><div style>Wow--thanks for sharing those stats! They are really interesting! </div><div style><br></div><div style>I just took a look at the link you shared and it looks like we're seeing the number of mappers contributing on any given day. Do you know if it's possible to find the number of mappers contributing in a week or even month? That might give us a better sense of the "real" number of mappers in the US. (They would all still be relative to other countries, but it might give us a better indication of how we're doing. For example, when I first saw that 202 number, I was surprised at how low it was compared to SOTMUS attendance (380+), but knowing it's a daily tally makes far more sense. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Anyway, I think that a goal of increasing active mappers is really smart-- perhaps we could set annual or quarterly targets for ourselves? </div><div style><br></div><div style>Can you talk more about what an OSM Ambassador would do? I'm familiar w/ Fedora, but not its Ambassadors. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:59 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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