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

[Simon Poole]

I'm quite sure a really extended long tail could be very important for
us, not necessarily from a volume point of view, but imagine 200M people
in the US just adding their address.

Alas I have not seen any tool in the OSM realm that is simple enough,
and cuts out the jargon, to cater for such contributors.

Simon
 
Am 15.04.2013 06:24, schrieb Jaakko Helleranta.com:
> Not quite sure what Werner wanted to convey with the info about the shape and numbers of the long tail of OSM (perhaps nothing more than the numbers).
>
> Anyways, I'd just want to say that the "tiny" 0.1% of the data might well be a huge number of otherwise missing POIs, place or road names or other map features' details, tiny corrections to roads, etc.
>
> It's also likely a thing that has made 100+k people love OSM just a bit more.
>
> Suddenly 0.1% isn't that small anymore.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jaakko
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Werner Hoch <werner.ho at gmx.de>
> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:37:22 
> To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why do we have so many registered users with zero
>  edits ?
>
> Am Sonntag, den 14.04.2013, 23:38 +1000 schrieb Steve Bennett:
>> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
>>> Just a further data point. As of the end of last month we had edits from
>>> 324'152 unique UIDs, not quite 30% of all accounts (some of the
>>> changesets are likely to be empty, but the number is still quite a bit
>>> larger than the often quoted 200'000).
> I think the quotet 220000 are those mappers that still "own" an active
> osm object. (last editor).
>
>> Is there (or could there be?) a graph of contributions against number
>> of u-el-? Might be interesting also to see whether the number of users
>> on zero is vastly different to the number of users on one edit, two
>> edits etc.
> http://www.h-renrew.de/h/osm/osmchecks/03_Statistik/planet/statistic.html
>
> statistic based only on the last editors.
> about 25000 Users only own a single node.
>
> 90% of all ways and nodes are last edited by about 7000 users.
> 99% by about 30000 users.
>   --> 9% of data, 23000 users
> 99.9%  80000 Users
>   --> 0.9% of data, 50000 users
> and the rest:
>   --> 0.1% of data, 140000 users
>
> Regards
> Werner
>
>
>
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