<br>So far OSM is groing fast, but please don't forget that 15,000 users include people who are not from UK , and probably the majority will never draw a single way in the UK.<br><br>Alilo<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 10/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Miller</b> <<a href="mailto:peter.miller@itoworld.com">peter.miller@itoworld.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;" lang="EN-GB">I was pondering last week the fact that OSM now has almost
exactly 15,000 registered users and that the Ordnance Survey has a total of 1,500
staff. Ok so the OS guys turn up for work every day and are all focused on the
UK and have all the best gear and most of our registered users don't do a
lot, but OSM has ten times the number of surveyors and many folk at the OS are
not surveying anyway! Wow.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;" lang="EN-GB">Also, I was looking at the growth rate of registered
users on OSM. It took 131 days for the number of OSM mappers to double from 7,500
to 15,000. The average doubling time since the project had about 900 registered
users has been some 172 days which means that the number of users is going up
by about a factor of four each year.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;" lang="EN-GB">At a typical urban mapping rate of 500 population
per hour per user, these 15,000 users can map at the rate of 7million population
per hour. In a year when we have four times the number of users it will be
28million population per hour!</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;" lang="EN-GB">Overall, possibly Steve is not going to be far off
with his prediction of having the UK finished in June 2008!</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;" lang="EN-GB">The table below shows the doubling time to date, and
projections based on the average doubling rate to date. Of course better and
easier to use tools will increase the uptake and the productivity.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">28 November 2005</span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;" align="right"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">900</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">01 May 2006</span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;" align="right"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">1,875</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">30 October 2006</span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;" align="right"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">3,750</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">11 June 2007</span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;" align="right"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">7,500</span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;" align="right"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">15,000</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#666699" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">09 April 2008</span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"></span></font>
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<p style="text-align: right;" align="right"><font color="#666699" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">30,000</span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">
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<p style="text-align: right;" align="right"><font color="#666699" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">172</span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">
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<p><font color="#666699" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">28 September 2008</span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"></span></font>
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<p style="text-align: right;" align="right"><font color="#666699" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">60,000</span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">
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<p><font color="#666699" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">19 March 2009</span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"></span></font>
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<p style="text-align: right;" align="right"><font color="#666699" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 153);">120,000</span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;" lang="EN-GB">Regards,</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;" lang="EN-GB">Peter</span></font></p>
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