[OSM-talk] Nearby Users

[Paul Norman]

> From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frederik at remote.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:50 AM
> To: Talk Openstreetmap
> Subject: [OSM-talk] Nearby Users
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    I looked ad my personal "nearby users" list today for the first time
> in a while and found only 2 people with edits in the last year, 16
> people with no edits whatsoever, and the rest between "over one year
> ago" and "over five years ago". I know that OSM is vibrant in my corner
> of the woods but the "nearby users" list seems to disagree.
> 
> We could simply not list those people who have zero edits. Or we could
> sort the list differently - but how? Currently it is sorted by distance;
> should it be sorted by how long ago someone did their last edit? Or by
> how prolific someone is? Or a combination of the two? Or a combination
> of proximity+currency+productivity?

I'd start by filtering out those with zero edits. From there we can see
if additional changes are needed to make it useful. For me it's similar 
numbers as you.

Basically, we know a problem is showing irrelevant zero-edit users, and
an easy potential solution presents itself.