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Two years ago, I did an analysis on the reviews made with mangrove.reviews – you can find this analysis here.

In this blog, I’ll basically do the same analysis as then, but just with the latest data (as of 28 febr 2025).

Mangrove.reviews client breakdown

Total	2175
mangrove.reviews	834
mapcomplete.org	798
toggenburg.swiss	229
thurgau-bodensee.ch	70
ostschweiz.ch	55
heidiland.com	42
wengen.swiss	27
open-reviews.net	20
winterthur.com	15
beta.localtownguide.com	11
open-reviews.orderingstack.com	13
jungfrauregion.swiss	10

As is visible, about one third of all reviews came from mapcomplete, only a fraction less then mangrove.reviews itself.

It is also surprising that there are quite a few swiss websites in there.

Map themes

The most popular themes to create reviews were:

1. Food: 271 reviews
2. Shops: 117 reviews
3. Cafes and pubs: 84
4. Playgrounds: 53
5. Pets: 42
6. Toerisme vlaanderen (commissioned and hidden theme): 30
7. Cyclofix: 26
8. Campersite: 23
9. Fritures: 21
10. Personal theme: 21

No big surprises here, seems like food is by far the most popular theme to give reviews on.

Language

From the reviews that had a text, the language breakdown is pretty much in line with the changeset-language statistics.

1. English: 102
2. Dutch: 42
3. German: 37
4. Russian: 14
5. French: 12

Locations

The MapComplete-reviews are geographically clustered in Europe and the US – not surprisingly where the biggest and well-connected popuplations live.

However, South America and South-East-asia are starting to popup as well.

Flanders is overrepresented in Europe. MapComplete is mainly developed there and had a few projects going on there, so there are more reviews.

Conclusion

The reviews work and there is a slow but stable growth in the number of them. The results are predictable and, dare I say it, downright boring.

It must be said that the reviews have gotten a higher visibility in the MapComplete UI, which definitively helped to get more reviews.

The script to calculate the analysis is here