Last month, Simon Poole wrote a post in his diary where he also posted a data dump of global “first edits” by new contributors since 2005. You should head there to read more about it, especially the methodology and caveat section.

The cumulative global top five in terms of new edits are Germany, the United States, France, Russia, and UK. Meanwhile, in Asia, India heads the pack with Japan, Indonesia, China and the Philippines nipping at its heels.

> The huge spike from 2013 in the Philippine data set is from the Haiyan/Yolanda Typhoon Crisis

Using cumulative numbers for the data subset for the period 2012-10 to 2015-09, and in terms of percentage of contributors per capita (that’s contributor per population/1000) Japan’s outstanding 3.92% is followed closely by the Philippines’ 3.37%. For perspective, the global leader is Germany scored a very, very impressive 52.44%!

These numbers (and noted caveats) can tell us where we’ve been, and where we are now. Some of us in the OpenStreetMap Philippines community are curious about how to sustain the interest of new mappers, and is keen on engaging local mappers - old and new.

In this regard, we announced a̷ ̷[̷D̷i̷s̷c̷o̷r̷d̷ ̷c̷h̷a̷n̷n̷e̷l̷]̷(̷h̷t̷t̷p̷s̷:̷/̷/̷g̷o̷o̷.̷g̷l̷/̷X̷2̷X̷e̷Q̷E̷)̷ as a platform for casual, informal chat sessions about local OpenStreetMap concerns or quick queries. We hope to see more local mappers there.

We also maintain the following contact channels for OSM-PH:

• FB page: http://fb.com/OSMph
• FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/175398442797542
• G+: https://goo.gl/qk7cfn
• Mailing list: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/

EDIT: - we’ve dropped the Discord channel in favor of Slack