[OSM-talk] Portal for users/casual mappers (Re: Tagging FOR the renderer)

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
>
> You must have misunderstood something there, the top 50'000 (roughly 10%
> of all) or so mappers have contributed essentially all (roughly 95%)
> data to OSM. The long tail is not unimportant, but from a pure volume
> point of view OSM is very dependent on its core contributors. Not that
> this is a surprise or different than any other similar enterprise.
>

Keep in mind the type of contribution is different.

This year I edited 250,000 trees with a bad tag.  That's a huge number of
nodes, but not a significant contribution of knowledge.
The "long tail" editors on the other hand may be supplying data in unique
ways requiring local knowledge.
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