"OpenStreetMap has grown exponentially or quadratically over the last twenty years depending on the metric you’re interested in...The story isn’t so much about the data and technology, and it never was. It’s the people. " -- Steve Coast, reflecting on 20 years of OpenStreetMap on the OSM blog
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/08/09/openstreetmap-at-20/
@openstreetmap This is why I contribute.