<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jm@liotier.org" target="_blank">jm@liotier.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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 ?</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></blockquote></div><br>My opinion is that they are too intimidated to actually make an edit. I have no data to back that up just my own experience.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">One of the features I'd really like to see is a way to send mapping party announcements to people in the mapping party area. Of course we'd need a way for people to opt out, but inviting people out to become part of a community is a good way to engage more users. Lacking the skills, I hoping that someone steps to the plate and codes this feature. Any takers?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Clifford</div><div><br></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div>
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