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<font size="-1"><font size="-1">Looking at the profiles of nearby
mappers <font size="-1">displaye<font size="-1">d on my profi<font
size="-1">le pa<font size="-1">ge's <font size="-1">map<font
size="-1">, I am astonished to find that most of
them have made zero </font></font></font></font></font></font></font>edits<font
size="-1">. Those people <font size="-1">went through the
effort of registering <font size="-1">(</font>som<font
size="-1">e even added an avatar picture)</font> but then
did not use their account for anything <font size="-1">- </font></font></font>no
e<font size="-1">dits, no traces, nothing.<font size="-1"> Why ? <font
size="-1">Are these mere spam re<font size="-1">gistrations</font>
or are we actually losing good potenti<font size="-1">al
mappers in the <font size="-1">first hour<font size="-1">s
of their life as Openstreetmap users ? </font></font></font>How
many of them do w<font size="-1">e have ? </font>Do we have
logs that we can analy<font size="-1">ze <font size="-1">to
understand <font size="-1">h</font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font
size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font
size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font
size="-1">ow they c<font size="-1">a</font>me <font
size="-1">to Openstreetmap<font size="-1"> and
how they dropped out ?<br>
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