[Tagging] Long Tail

[Marc Gemis]

If I would get such a survey from any of the tens of webapps for which I
created a account that I used once, the answer would be something like

"I wanted to know what this service is about, and so I added my house. But
this is not something I to do during my spare time for a longer period."


I guess the answer will be universal to all hobbies. How many people drop
out of guitar classes after a few lessons, stop following a course on
learning a foreign language, going to dog school with their dogs, ... ?
People try something new and when they loose interest or don't like, don't
see a benefit, they start doing something else.
It's easier to use Google maps, "I just want to consume data, not produce
it."

Just some observations from what I've seen around me.

regards

m

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl> wrote:

> W dniu 19.05.2015 14:25, SomeoneElse napisał(a):
>
>  Also, it's worth mentioning that despite people sometimes describing
>> OSM as "unfriendly" the vast majority of changeset discussion
>> comments, especially to new users, are very friendly and "happy to
>> help".
>>
>
> That's why I want to have some hard data: we really don't know it (on the
> whole project level) what are the common problems or how many casual
> mappers gets the help. We just imagine a lot or know the things only on the
> local level.
>
> Let's simply ask them - short survey for iD users after 30-90 days in the
> project or 50-100 edits (whatever comes first) may give us nice metric to
> think what can we do better.
>
> --
> "The train is always on time / The trick is to be ready to put your bags
> down" [A. Cohen]
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