[OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org - some numbers

[John Firebaugh]

Hi Andy,

Thanks, this is great. I love having real numbers to discuss.

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:36 AM, SomeoneElse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk>wrote:

> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>     it has been proposed to make the newly released iD v1.1 the default
>> editor on openstreetmap.org, meaning that if someone doesn't explicitly
>> chose an editor they will open iD instead of Potlatch.
>>
>
> In an attempt to put some numbers to to the "errors made by new mappers"
> debate, I've done a count-back of new users and editors that they use for
> they area that I keep an eye on in the UK (England and bits of Wales, not
> including bits that I'm unfamiliar with such as London and the south-east)
>
> During the last month in this area:
>
> P2  iD  JOSM Other (Wheelmap / Go Map! / POI+)
> Made no newbie errors            34  17     3 3
> Made at least one newbie error   40  16     1 3
> Made more serious errors          5   0     1      0
>

So 45 of 79 new contributors (57%) made errors with P2, 16 of 33 (48%) with
iD, 2 of 5 (40%) with JOSM, and 3 of 6 (50%) with other editors. While
there's no doubt a fair margin of error here, what I conclude from this is
while it's still much too easy for new contributors to make mistakes with
our current editors, there's some indication that they make fewer errors
(especially serious ones) with iD than with P2.

If you have time, I would love to see more numbers in the future or
changeset examples that show what types of errors are most common.

John
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