OpenStreetMap News №15: + 90% on osm.org, the best routing service, Wikipedia objects on the map, Vladivostok transport
The 22.5 thousand readers of the OpenStreetMap blog on Habrahabr (thank you all!) Are joined by the readers of blogs.openstreetmap.org! Hello, world!
The news (which was picked up by LOR , OpenNet , Vesti.ru and Radio-T (at 1:52) ) about using Apple data OpenStreetMap caused on March 11 the growth of traffic (the number of global Internet users visiting the site) by 90% (according to Alexa .com)
Statistics In February, 500 people were registered per day in the project, of which 180 contributed. In total, 2100 participants were active every day. After the news from 4sq on March 1, 1600 people registered, of which 700 began to contribute to the project. After Apple's news on March 8, 1,400 people registered (560 started editing), and on March 9, 1800 (780 started editing).
A new project that shows the object of a Wikipedia article on a map, for example, the Moscow region . I think it will soon be available immediately on Wikipedia.