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OpenStreetMap Foundation

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]

Governance

The foundation is run by a board of seven members, including the foundation's officers: chairman, secretary and treasurer.[3] As of December 2020, the board consists of Allan Mustard (Chairperson), Rory McCann (Secretary), Guillaume Rischard (Treasurer), Tobias Knerr, Jean-Marc Liotier, Mikel Maron, and Eugene Alvin Villar.[4][5]

Several working groups, composed mostly of volunteers, carry out day-to-day operations on behalf of the foundation:[6][7]

  • Data Working Group – countervandalism and dispute resolution[8][9][10]
  • Communication Working Group
  • Engineering Working Group
  • Legal or Licensing Working Group – trademark and licensing issues[11]
  • Local Chapters Working Group
  • Membership Working Group[6]
  • Operations Working Group
  • State of the Map Organizing Committee

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. ^ "Officers & Board". OpenStreetMap Foundation. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  4. ^ "Officers & Board".
  5. ^ "Board Member Bios". OpenStreetMap Foundation.
  6. ^ a b Spreng, Michael (September 21, 2019). Past and Future of the OpenStreetMap Foundation’s Membership Working Group (PDF). State of the Map. Heidelberg.
  7. ^ Rice, Matthew T.; Paez, Fabiana I.; Mulhollen, Aaron P.; Shore, Brandon M.; Caldwell, Douglas R. (November 2012). "Crowdsourced Geospatial Data" (PDF). Alexandria, Virginia: United States Army Topographic Engineering Center. pp. 104–105. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  8. ^ Ballatore, Andrea (2014). "Defacing the map: Cartographic vandalism in the digital commons". The Cartographic Journal. 51 (3). Taylor & Francis: 16. arXiv:1404.3341. doi:10.1179/1743277414y.0000000085. S2CID 1828882.
  9. ^ Neis, Pascal; Goetz, Marcus; Zipf, Alexander (November 22, 2012). "Towards Automatic Vandalism Detection in OpenStreetMap". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 1 (3). International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: 315–332. doi:10.3390/ijgi1030315.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  10. ^ Quinn, Sterling D.; Tucker, Doran A. (November 6, 2017). "How geopolitical conflict shapes the mass-produced online map". First Monday. 22 (11). doi:10.5210/fm.v22i11.7922.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  11. ^ Bégin, Daniel; Devillers, Rodolphe; Roche, Stéphane (2018). "Contributors' enrollment in collaborative online communities: the case of OpenStreetMap". International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 32 (8). Taylor & Francis: 1611–1630. doi:10.1080/10095020.2017.1370177.
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