[OSM-talk-be] some osm.be statistics

[joost schouppe]

Hey Nicolas,

I totally agree that building awereness is always good.
But I'm not sure that "more people know and use OSM in Flanders". I would
like to make some statistics of (active) contributors in the various parts
of the country to see if that's true when it comes to contribution. Which
is only part of the equation of course.

An alternative explanation for different browsing numbers might be that the
search terms people use to find the website work better in Dutch language
Belgian Google than in the French language one. For example, just looking
up "openstreetmap" in Dutch, gives as the first result the Holland website,
but osm.be is already number five. It would be interesting to see where it
shows up in your version.
I have the impression that people mostly use very simple queries like this
to find us; however almost 90% of search terms are unavailable in
Analytics. (If I understand correctly, because of people switching to
https).

I think the takeway for everyone is that we are small and not as easy to
find as we should be. And the best solution for that is building backlinks.
So if you know of people who write about Openstreetmap in Belgium, kindly
ask them to refer to us if that's apropriate.


2015-11-03 6:05 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Pettiaux <Nicolas at pettiaux.be>:

> Much thanks Joost for the analysis and the data.
>
> I understand it as the following ; more people know & use OSM in Flanders
> than in Brussels & Wallonie, and we therefore have to work on developping
> its awareness  .
>
> Regards,
>
> Nicolas
>
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