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

[Ben Abelshausen]

What could also help: someone native french speaking to help with the
twitter account. Now we mostly tweet in NL and EN.

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Best regards,

Ben Abelshausen

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 8:27 AM, joost schouppe <joost.schouppe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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