Hey,<div><br></div><div>There are quite a few examples of users coming from one of these big pushes and then just doing it - for instance, we were working on Campo Grande, because a foursquare user, muzito, complained that most of the city was missing. The editing quickly became all conflicted because another user was active - and it turned out to be muzito himself, who had never heard of openstreetmap till a few weeks ago and just trained himself on Potlatch 2, and now has essentially put the city on the map - complete with neighborhood names and local knowledge.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It's typical for projects to have a low percentage of active users, and that most users won't immediately be addicted to OpenStreetMap.</div><div><br></div><div>But we should react to this kind of news by trying to make OpenStreetMap more accessible an welcoming to new users: not skeptical of them, their intentions, or whether they'll stick around.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Tom</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Lester Caine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lester@lsces.co.uk">lester@lsces.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">Peter Wendorff wrote:<br>
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It's nothing to say against these users, even if it's not more, but I hope to be<br>
wrong while guessing, that mappers "invited by" some of these "user projects"<br>
aren't necessarily interested to become part of a community of mappers and to<br>
participate in that manner.<br>
To conclude: we probably should be careful to reduce these "records" to the pure<br>
user count.<br>
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