[OSM-talk] The power of the crowd

[Zoran Kovacevic]

Is there any way of segmenting these results per country?

Alilo wrote:
> 
> 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 
> <mailto:peter.miller at itoworld.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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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>     	
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>     1,875
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>     	
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>     154
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>     30 October 2006
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>     	
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>     3,750
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>     	
> 
>     182
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>     11 June 2007
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>     	
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>     7,500
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>     	
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>     224
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>     20 October 2007
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>     	
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>     15,000
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>     131
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>     09 April 2008
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>     	
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>     30,000
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>     	
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>     172
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>     28 September 2008
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>     	
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>     60,000
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>     	
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>     172
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>     19 March 2009
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>     	
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>     120,000
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>     	
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>     172
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>     Regards,
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>     Peter
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