So that would mean 20.000 active users by the end of the year.
If you take the surface of the earth into account, which is 148,940,000 km2 land. Than there is 7447 km2 per active user to be maintained. That is 4.7 times the surface of London.
Off coarse there is no way you can map the desert with the same amount of POI as London is mapped, and mapping every tree of the rain forrest can't be our goal. But there is still a lot of publicity to be made.
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Comment from Vincent de Phily on 16 August 2011 at 10:45
If only these stats counted users who have made edits. It's a much lower but much more interesting figure.
Comment from Central America on 16 August 2011 at 11:32
I believe it is 5-10% depending on the weather but I think it is a good indication of recognition.
Comment from Sanderd17 on 16 August 2011 at 11:54
At least half a million.
The number of active users (at least one contribution in the last month) is stabilizing to 4% of the total number of users. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Osmdbstats8.png
So that would mean 20.000 active users by the end of the year.
If you take the surface of the earth into account, which is 148,940,000 km2 land. Than there is 7447 km2 per active user to be maintained. That is 4.7 times the surface of London.
Off coarse there is no way you can map the desert with the same amount of POI as London is mapped, and mapping every tree of the rain forrest can't be our goal. But there is still a lot of publicity to be made.
And now I just made you mad with numbers :-P
Comment from marscot on 16 August 2011 at 12:26
no no great stuff