According to the official statistics page, today OpenStreetMap has hit the milestone of 10 million registered users! This is not the first time though; in fact it already happened earlier this year and in 2023 (during which year the amount even exceeded 11 million!); lately, the number of registered users graph shows a saw-tooth pattern, probably, in my opinion, due to the SPAM accounts being continuously banned by the admins.

By the way, if you happen to have an account on OSM wiki, please check the translation of Template:Contributors/count in your language as it may need to be updated. That template is pretty simple but it’s used by a couple of “main” wiki pages.

However, the number seems pretty high, but it may be worth noting that only about 23% (~2.25 million) of the total number of registered users has made at least one modification in the OSM database. Considering that the database has received 17 billion¹ edits, that means that every contributor has made an average of 7,400 changes from their entire lifespan as a user (you can see how many contributions you made on your HDYC page).

One last question that’s been bothering me: how many users would be registered on OSM if no one had been deleted or banned? Well, according to the API, at the time of writing, the last valid user id is 23,302,305 so the answer is more than double the number of currently registered users.

Imagine what could be achieved with twice as many contributors!

¹ number calculated using the file changesets.osm dated 2025-04-07 (license ODbL 1.0); the values shown here are unverified and may be incorrect.

Happy mapping to all 10 million users!

Aggiornamento alla voce del diario dello scorso anno con gli ultimi estratti di Geofabrik. Ecco una lista aggiornata al 20 luglio 2025 degli utenti che hanno mappato sul suolo italiano per almeno 90 giorni consecutivi:

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Ispirato dal diario dell’utente bryceco, ecco una lista aggiornata all’11 agosto 2024 degli utenti che hanno mappato sul suolo italiano per almeno 90 giorni consecutivi:

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It’s not vandalism, but just a funny case of Pareidolia.

The location is near Castiglione della Pescaia, Tuscany, Italy.

In the OSM wiki there are some templates (KeyDescription and ValueDescription) that are used by Taginfo to show some useful informations to the user; since the same information is contained in the Data Item linked to the feature page, some wiki users, in good faith, shorten these templates to their minimum (e.g. “{{KeyDescription}}”), thus preventing Taginfo from fetching the data.

This is what ref:mise on Taginfo currently looks like:

I think that this issue is on Taginfo side but, for the time being, it doesn’t seem to be on their To-do list; for this reason, I believe that we should preserve (or restore if removed) the information stored in these templates (even if this means maintaining the same information in two separate locations, i.e. the Wiki page and the Data Item page).

Here is a sorted list of the OSM Wiki pages (tags or key related) which contain the text “{{KeyDescription}}” or “{{TagDescription}}”:

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Oggi ho iniziato ad effettuare modifiche utilizzando JOSM con il WMS messo a disposizione dalla Regione Toscana.

Sono nuovo di questo ambiente ma dovrei imparare alla svelta.

Se sei qua perché hai notato un mio errore ti prego di segnalarmelo.

Grazie e buon mapping a tutti.