Download numbers

As it is summer for many of the mkgmap developers there is the usual lull in activity at this time of year. So I thought I would just post a few numbers about the project.

For the first time number of downloads per month went over 5,000 in May and and has stayed over 5,000 since then. We have now just passed 100,000 total downloads.

No doubt many downloads are repeats and a fair few are robots trying to download everything and so on so it is very difficult to know how many people are really using it. For contrast there are about 170 people subscribed to the mailing list.

In each of the first 7 months of the project the monthly downloads were below 100, so things have come a long way since then. The first time that the number of monthly downloads went over a thousand was back in May 2008. It seems there is always a surge in May.