[OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

Cartinus cartinus at xs4all.nl
Fri Apr 12 15:04:26 UTC 2013


Most of these are people who didn't read what Openstreetmap was about
before they registered. They most likely thought they would need to
register to _USE_ all the features of Openstreetmap, not contribute to it.

On 04/12/2013 02:00 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> Looking at the profiles of nearby mappers displayed on my profile page's
> map, I am astonished to find that most of them have made zero edits.
> Those people went through the effort of registering (some even added an
> avatar picture) but then did not use their account for anything - no
> edits, no traces, nothing.Why ? Are these mere spam registrations or are
> we actually losing good potential mappers in the first hours of their
> life as Openstreetmap users ? How many of them do we have ? Do we have
> logs that we can analyze to understand how they came to Openstreetmapand
> how they dropped out ?


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m.v.g.,
Cartinus



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