[OSM-talk] The power of the crowd

[Alilo]

So far OSM is groing fast, but please don't forget that 15,000 users include
people who are not from UK , and probably the majority will never draw a
single way in the UK.

Alilo

On 10/21/07, Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
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>  I was pondering last week the fact that OSM now has almost exactly 15,000
> registered users and that the Ordnance Survey has a total of 1,500 staff. Ok
> so the OS guys turn up for work every day and are all focused on the UK and
> have all the best gear and most of our registered users don't do a lot, but
> OSM has ten times the number of surveyors and many folk at the OS are not
> surveying anyway! Wow.
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> Also, I was looking at the growth rate of registered users on OSM. It took
> 131 days for the number of OSM mappers to double from 7,500 to 15,000. The
> average doubling time since the project had about 900 registered users has
> been some 172 days which means that the number of users is going up by about
> a factor of four each year.
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> At a typical urban mapping rate of 500 population per hour per user, these
> 15,000 users can map at the rate of 7million population per hour. In a year
> when we have four times the number of users it will be 28million population
> per hour!
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> Overall, possibly Steve is not going to be far off with his prediction of
> having the UK finished in June 2008!
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> The table below shows the doubling time to date, and projections based on
> the average doubling rate to date. Of course better and easier to use tools
> will increase the uptake and the productivity.
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> 28 November 2005
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> 900
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> 01 May 2006
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> 1,875
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> 154
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> 30 October 2006
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> 3,750
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> 182
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> 11 June 2007
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> 7,500
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> 224
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> 20 October 2007
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> 15,000
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> 131
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> 09 April 2008
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> 30,000
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> 172
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> 28 September 2008
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> 60,000
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> 172
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> 19 March 2009
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> 120,000
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> 172
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> Regards,
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> Peter
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