In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users

Re:In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users by mpol on Saturday December 23, 2023 @02:09PM (#38747089)

An idea might be to have an "Adopt Your Own Neighbourhood" campaign. I don't know if this is seen as wanted in the OSM community, it might attract a lot of low-effort contributions which might wear out longtime volunteers.

The way I started contributing to OSM is when I was tired of seeing old or no POI data and thought "enough is enough". I first started editing the shopping mall in my neighbourhood, then the schools, and so forth. It is now 5 years later and I can quite keep up locally with POI.

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Re:In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users by eisa01 on Saturday December 23, 2023 @02:32PM (#38747328)

Same, 95% of my edits are POI data in the past two years and I fixed two of the main shipping streets in my neighborhood

But yeah, not sure how scalable even such a campaign would be. I’m the only user I know that use EveryDoor to confirm/update POI in a city of 500k people…

You’d probably need at least 1 out of 1000 people globally to actively contribute. That’s almost 10 million people, quite a bit more than the 1 million Organic Maps users and 250k OSM contributors in 2022 :)

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Re:In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users by matkoniecz on Saturday December 23, 2023 @05:27PM (#38748915)

local mappers interested in mapping their area are highly welcome!

if anyone here is interested and unsure how to start, feel free to ask at https://community.openstreetmap.org/ (official forum, requires OSM account) or at one of other contact channels ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact_channels ) - there is Slack, IRC, Discord and so on.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ may help but it is sadly suboptimal for someone completely new.

If you just click edit you will get tutorial for default in-browser editor.

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