[Tagging] motorcycle:scale

[Jarek Piórkowski]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 17:55, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What concerns me a bit, is that there are 750000+ OSM mappers, which is great! But it would seem that there are only ~50 (? - someone would know) members of "Tagging", with only ~20 of those being active (which I would call contributing to list discussions more than once a week). So 20 of us are deciding which tags 750000 mappers should use, & pretty well have the vote of life or death to new proposals!

Those numbers are a little misleading. First, there are about 40000
mappers active in past 30 days, as with much of internet most users
are inactive. Second, I would say a bigger influence in "which tags
mappers should use" is held by maintainers of iD and other
beginner-friendly editors, which if anything is a number smaller than
20. (I would guess people using JOSM or the like are more
statistically likely to invent a sensible tag even if not proposed or
documented.)

--Jarek