[OSM-talk] market share of editing apps (was: SwiftAddress)

[Erwin Olario]

Simon, you mentioned this in a response in the SwiftAddress thread. Do you
mind saying what are those editing apps with more than 1% of the market
share?

I would interpret it as enough users are interested in them for one reason
or another.

/Erwin

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On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 4:21 AM Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

>
> Am 23.01.2021 um 13:13 schrieb Yves:
> >
> > Le 23 janvier 2021 11:20:19 GMT+01:00, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> a
> écrit :
> >> I don't quite understand why, outside of a specialized keyboard, you are
> >> reinventing the wheel
> > The pleasure of building something from the ground up, joy of developing
> an App, maybe?
> > I hope you did not forgot it, Simon.
> > A wealthy environment should be more welcoming to new players.
> > Yves
>
> There are
>
> - limited edits to go around
>
> - limited developer time to go around
>
> - limited user interest and attention.
>
> The more fragmented the OSM app market place the more and more difficult
> it gets to have a viable number of users, yes every new app takes away
> edits from the existing  apps (and no, the rising tide analogy does not
> apply here). At least for all non-commercially developed OSM software
> this would seem to be the only metric to indicate if investing the
> required work makes sense or not. Of the roughly 30 editing apps, only 9
> have a share of more than 1% of the total user market (roughly 3'000
> contributors in absolute numbers) and for the rest it falls off really
> quickly. And while you could admire people that carry on maintaining an
> app for 40 users, there is no denying that it doesn't make sense for OSM
> as a whole at all.
>
> This is not an argument against change and improvements, but about
> leaving ones ego aside and investing the time and effort in to bettering
> existing applications. BTW just as I did when I decided to invest time
> in to improving an existing app, instead of creating a new one.
>
> This doesn't apply just to editing software, it is (somewhat driven by
> the nature of OSM and historically little central software development)
> rampant all over the place, for example notoriously geocoding software
> where there seems to be at leas a couple of new entrants every year
> which then go away again just as fast.
>
> Simon
>
>
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