[OSM-talk] Now 5 users in Östergötland

[Lars Aronsson]

If you look at a map of Sweden, you will notice two lakes next to 
each other that are bigger than the rest.  The one to the right is 
Vättern, Europe's 5th largest, a very slim shape pointing north 
and south.  If you draw lines to the Baltic coast from its ends, 
you enclose a roughly square area that is the province of 
Östergötland, just a little south of Stockholm.

Östergötland has 412,000 inhabitants and on the OSM wiki the 
[[Category:Users in Östergötland]] now has 5 members.  Most 
recently, JLS (Jonas Svensson) has joined today.

This is one OpenStreetMap contributor for every 82,400 
inhabitants, actually the same as Bedford (Ojw).  As a comparison, 
if London (with 14 million ppl in the greater metro area) were to 
reach the same attendance as Bedford and Östergötland, we would 
see 170 members in the [[category:Users in London]] but there are 
only 8.  On the other hand, Bedfordshire would have 7 contributors 
which is Ojw + 6 new ones.

As another and less optimistic comparison, it has taken me a full 
year to pull four neighbors into OSM.  It took me less than a week 
to pull that many people into Wikipedia in the spring of 2001.  
And the difference is not that I have become less charismatic, 
it's simply a lot harder to make people make maps.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se