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Coordinates: 52°33′04″N 1°49′07″W / 52.55098°N 1.81860°W / 52.55098; -1.81860
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OpenStreetMap Foundation
Founded22 August 2006; 18 years ago (2006-08-22)
TypeCompany limited by guarantee
Registration no.05912761
Location
  • St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS, United Kingdom
Coordinates52°33′04″N 1°49′07″W / 52.55098°N 1.81860°W / 52.55098; -1.81860
Key people
Allan Mustard
Expenses£91,607 (expenses for 2011-12)[1]
Websitewww.osmfoundation.org Edit this at Wikidata

The OpenStreetMap Foundation is a non-profit foundation whose aim is to support and enable the development of freely-reusable geospatial data. It is closely connected with the OpenStreetMap project, although its constitution does not prevent it supporting other projects. It was registered in England and Wales on 22 August 2006 as a company limited by guarantee.[2]

Structure

Membership

OSMF is a membership organisation, with all but corporate members entitled to vote at a general meeting on foundation activities. Full members may run for election to the board of directors. OSMF members do not determine how OpenStreetMap itself operates, just how the foundation supports the OpenStreetMap movement. Membership is open to all who pay the membership fee of £15 per year and who meet certain participation criteria. Individuals who have mapped more than 42 days out of the last 365 or who have contributed equivalent effort to support the project are eligible for waiver of the membership fee as "active contributors" and may join the foundation free of charge. At the Annual General Meeting in December 2020, the foundation membership voted to allow "active contributors" to be full, and not merely associate, members of the foundation.[3][4][5]

Since September 2013, the foundation accepts corporate memberships in an "associate member" (non-voting) category. Founding corporate members are Geofabrik, Geotab, Naver, NextGIS and Mapbox.[6][7]

As of December 2018, the foundation had 972 Normal members, 515 Associate members and 28 Corporate members.[8] As of December 2020 the foundation counted 1,913 members in total.[9]

Board

The foundation is run by a board of seven members, including the foundation's officers: chairman, secretary and treasurer.[10]

As of December 2020, the board is:[11][12]

  • Allan Mustard (Chairperson)
  • Rory McCann (Secretary)
  • Guillaume Rischard (Treasurer)
  • Tobias Knerr
  • Jean-Marc Liotier
  • Mikel Maron
  • Eugene Alvin Villar

Working Groups

Working Groups are small groups of people that work on specific tasks to support OSM.[13] Their members may have special access to functions that normal users do not. For example, the Data Working Group members can redact edits and block users.[14]

The groups are:

  • Licensing
    • Handles issues related to licensing
  • Data
    • Resolve issues with data that the community can't resolve themselves
  • Operations
    • Maintenance of OSM servers
  • Engineering
    • Coordinate Google Summer of Code
  • Communication
    • Maintain public communication channels and respond to press contacts
  • StateoftheMap Organizing Committee
    • Plans and executes annual SOTM conference
  • Membership
    • Handles the membership database and any membership queries
  • Local Chapters and Communities
    • Works to encourage formation of local chapters and strengthen

Local chapters

The foundation works in partnership with local chapters which coordinate the mapping communities of various countries:[15]

Country Name
 Argentina Asociación Civil Geolibres
 Belgium Open Knowledge Belgium, trading as "OpenStreetMap Belgium"
 Congo, Democratic Republic of OpenStreetMap RDC
 Czechia OpenStreetMap Česká republika z.s.
 France OpenStreetMap France
 Germany FOSSGIS, trading as "OpenStreetMap Deutschland"
 Iceland OpenStreetMap á Íslandi
 Ireland OpenStreetMap Ireland CLG
 Italy Wikimedia Italy, trading as "OpenStreetMap Italia"
 Kosovo Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova
Oceania OpenStreetMap Association
  Switzerland Swiss OpenStreetMap Association
 United Kingdom OpenStreetMap United Kingdom
 United States OpenStreetMap United States Inc.

Funding

Treasurer's reports as required by English law are posted to the Foundation's website. These reports include information on sources of funding.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Finances/Income 2012 - OSMF". Osmfoundation.org. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
  2. ^ "Company Details". Companies House. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  3. ^ "Annual General Meetings/2020/Minutes".
  4. ^ "Active Contributor Membership".
  5. ^ "Become a member!".
  6. ^ "Welcoming our first Corporate Members". Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  7. ^ "NextGIS among first OpenStreetMap Foundation's corporate members". Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  8. ^ "Membership/Statistics". OpenStreetMap Foundation. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  9. ^ {{cite web|url=https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/2020/Chairperson%E2%80%99s_report%7Ctitle=OSMF Chairperson's Annual Report for 2020
  10. ^ "Officers & Board". OpenStreetMap Foundation. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  11. ^ "Officers & Board".
  12. ^ "Board Member Bios". OpenStreetMap Foundation.
  13. ^ "Working Groups". Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  14. ^ "Data Working Group". Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  15. ^ "Local Chapters". Retrieved 8 August 2020.
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