In december 2021 I counted again:
Total number of keys: 83903.
Number of keys used once: 26594.

Hi Md jins,

You have found the user diaries! Maybe now is the time to tell us about your mapping efforts? How do you proceed? What have you learned?

Marc.

It is working!

Dit soort zaken kun je echt veel beter inbrengen in het forum: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=12

Now you do!

I have never seen a diary entry shorter than this!

That is a surprisingly short diary entry!

@GinaroZ: I know, but you still have to click on each individual fixme to find out what it is. Of course my London example is a bit crowded, but if you zoom in, it’s easy to see in one view what has to be fixed and if it is something within your control.

BTW, my own OpenPoiMap has the same possibilites as Keepright when it comes to finding fixme’s.

Great! This helped me out of similar problems with huge changesets! Thanks.

Now that it works, you should come up with something more interesting for the other mappers reading here!

A year later:

Total number of keys: 59953 Number of keys used at most 10 times: 39179 (65%) Number of keys used at least 10000 times: 1401 (2.3%)

The problem with the “suspicious” keys remains….

@pnorman:
It still is useless because they don’t read e-mail in their OSM account.

@CloCkWeRX:
The timeframe was usually 1-2 days, but never more than a week.

@Joost:
Checking of the first edit was included, and reacted upon if necessary.

In the Dutch community we send out a personal welcome message to new mappers after they do their first edit. Mappers working with iD, JOSM or Potlatch are usually aware of the OSM way of communicating with each other by means of mailing lists, forums or personal messages.
But a maps.me user is not aware of the fact that I can send him a message through his account page, nor is maps.me sending out alerts to users that a message for them was posted on their account page.
Recently we saw an enormous increase of bad edits caused by maps.me users, but when trying to get in contact with those users, this seems to be impossible: they never reply.
Hence we stopped sending out the welcome message if that user used maps.me as editor.

I do agree that maps.me might be a useful addition to the mapping tools, and I do use it myself to do quick and dirty POI adding which I later (at home using JOSM) improve by adding the stuff that you can’t add with maps.me.

Welcome!

There are many more objects that are not visible on the standard (Mapnik) rendering. To help me (and many others) out of that limitation, I created OpenPoiMap (a user-friendly interface to overpass-turbo) that can show (almost) everything you want to see on the map.
Read the wiki!

@Zverik your Map is indeed a very welcome addition. It is really a pity that on the standard OSM map at openstreetmap.org, people are not offered more choices of renderers, including yours!

You mean Virb? Nice camera, I used it a lot for Mapillary.

In the Dutch community I send a welcome message to every mapper that does his/her first edit in our (small) country.
In this message I point them to a special help Wiki with informatin for newbies and encourage them to join the community.
I also check their first edits for serious mistakes/errors. A half year after this first contact I check the number of edits that were done after this initial edits to see if we are dealing with “one time only” mappers (e.g. no more edits after the initial edits) or staying mappers (more than 100 changesets after 6 months.)

On average we have 80-100 new persons (doing a first edit) each month. Based on some preliminary results and data checking, it seems that only 3% of the mappers keep mapping!

Inspiring story!