[OSM-talk] Nice problem to have

[Peter Wendorff]

Am 16.03.2012 08:31, schrieb Kai Krueger:
> Kai Krueger wrote
>> This imho shows that the publicity of Apple and Foursquare using OSM
>> directly resulted in new mappers for OSM. Although it isn't the complete
>> record, that was around the 13th of September 2009 (anyone know if there
>> was a special occasion arount that time?), it is the second highest number
>> yet. Furthermore, with the news so fresh, perhaps we will still beat the
>> record.
>>
> Well, to answer my own question if we can beat the record of most new
> mappers in a week, it is a resounding yes. This week (beginning 8th of
> March) saw nearly 3300 new mappers, clearly beating the old record!
>
> Richard Fairhurst pointed out that the old record was set in the week
> Monopoly City Streets launched (a large scale internet game using
> OpenStreetMap data), so again due to a popular user of OpenStreetMap.
>
> So the more large sites use OSM, the faster the mapping community grows and
> therefore it is imho import for OSM and its community to care about its data
> consumers as it benefits from them even if they don't "give back".
>
> Kai
>
On the other hand it might be worth to look on the contributions of 
these additional users.
How much do they contribute? Do they do more than adding their home or 
their own shop?

It's nothing to say against these users, even if it's not more, but I 
hope to be wrong while guessing, that mappers "invited by" some of these 
"user projects" aren't necessarily interested to become part of a 
community of mappers and to participate in that manner.
To conclude: we probably should be careful to reduce these "records" to 
the pure user count.

Peter