[OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

[80n]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Sunday 08 August 2010 18:29:07 80n wrote:
> > The
> > following figures, from Nick Black, show a 1% drop in active contributors
> > in one month.  This suggests that the size of the community may already
> > have peaked.  Data loss will not improve this picture.
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Nick Black <nickblack1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > >   The % of users actively contributing to OSM each month has fallen
> > > from 5.7% in March 2010 (13,675 / 238,985) to 4.7% in June (297,041 /
> > > 14,018).
>
> It might help your credibillity if you actually look at the figures you
> quote.
>
> 1) From March to June is longer than one month. There's April and May
> between
> them.
>
> 2) The numbers say there is an _increase_ in the number of active mappers
> from
> 13,675 to 14,018. "drop of 1% of users actively contributing" <> "1% drop
> in
> active contributors"
>
> Sorry, I summarized the metrics incorrectly.  At least I quoted my source
so that someone was able to check what I was saying.  Thank you.








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