[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

[Simon Poole]

Am 14.03.2014 21:47, schrieb Carol Kraemer:
> ......
>
> Let's say that there are 1,500,000 registered users
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Osmdbstats1_users.png> as is
> stated by the first graph. I will also look at the last year of % of
> total users contributing where the highest percentage is no more than
> 2%. This is a conservative guess, at best, but that means that
> internationally, there have only been about 30,000 active users
> contributing of the 1,500,000 registered users.
> ......
Unluckily you are being misled by the numbers, which are not wrong, but
you do have to understand how they were produced.

See https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPoole/diary/20524 or similar
numbers from Pascal Neis for indications of what is really going on.

And while I haven't updated my charts yet this year, I have already
produced numbers for January and February 2014. January showed the
largest increase in contributors in a month to date in the history of
OSM and the second largest total number of monthly active contributors.
Not exactly indicating that we have an issue.

The contributors/accounts ratio has gone up and down a bit over time,
but that is more likely mainly due to external effects, the contributor
numbers show a steady, slightly increasing over time, growth.

Simon

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