<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks Andreas for preparing this! I will try to complete the blog post on friday, including your data.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Tim</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Neumann, Andreas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net" target="_blank">a.neumann@carto.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
<p>Hi Paolo,</p>
<p>I did not have any data on downloads per country. Is such data available?</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We can extract numbers from awstats but they should be taken with a (large) pinch of salt since we do not know redistribution rates after the download happens.</div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Tim</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
<p>About USA: compared to Europe, this country is very much dominated by one single vendor. I don't need to mention which one. Many governmental organizations have site licenses and aren't allowed to use any other GIS software besides it. In addition, if you are consulting business and work as a contractor for the government, you typically have to deliver projects and data formats of this single vendor. So no choice either. With such background, it seems expectable that we do not receive sponsorships from the US. I am, however, surprised how many private donations we receive from the US.</p>
<p>This fact is also undermined by the search volume that QGIS and ArcGIS trigger on Google trends - see <a href="https://www.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=QGIS,ArcGIS" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/<wbr>trends/explore?geo=US&q=QGIS,<wbr>ArcGIS</a> - compare that to the woldwide search volume or especially some European countries and the situation looks a lot different.</p>
<p>Do you have another explanation for the fact that we don't receive sponsorships from the US?</p>
<p>Greetings,</p>
<p>Andreas</p><span class="">
<p>On 2017-02-15 06:14, Paolo Cavallini wrote:</p>
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<div class="m_6226147824304360377pre" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:monospace">Il 14/02/2017 11:30, Andreas Neumann ha scritto:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding:0 0.4em;border-left:#1010ff 2px solid;margin:0">Hi,<br><br> Please find a little analysis of the sponsorships and donations in 2016.<br> Spatial and temporal distributions.<br><br><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wfn1cL9Ix5hCrVLF5WTZ8ZAJNY_PPYxIMgne4P-6jLM/edit#" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/<wbr>document/d/<wbr>1wfn1cL9Ix5hCrVLF5WTZ8ZAJNY_<wbr>PPYxIMgne4P-6jLM/edit#</a></blockquote>
<br> Hi Andreas,<br> very interesting, thanks. Some thoughts:<br> * it would also be interesting to normalize these data with number of<br> downloads<br> * USA seem a special case: lots of donations, no sponsors; it will be<br> good to understand why, and how to make sponsoring more attractive there.<br> All the best, and thanks again.</div>
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