[OSM-talk] Paweł's q: what can be done?

[Simon Poole]

Am 03.02.2013 20:42, schrieb Paweł Paprota:
> .....
> Nice way to interpret the data :-) Look closer and not only if the
> charts are rising and you can see a different picture:
>
> Number of users grew from 500k to 1M since some time in 2011 until
> January 2013:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Osmdbstats1_users.png
>
> At the same time the percentage of (highly) active users is falling
> since at least 2009 and this number is now below 2%.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Osmdbstats8.png
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Osmdbstats4A.png

A relative decrease in active mappers is what you would expect as the 
result of us casting our net further (which can be seen in the 
accelerated growth of accounts) , and I fully expect it to decrease more 
as we reach out to groups that we haven't approached before.

Naturally in absolute terms the numbers are increasing, just as would be 
expected, see http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/index.php?item=members 
These are the really important numbers and those that we want to grow.

Simon