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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 (abbreviated OSMF) 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.

History

The OpenStreetMap Foundation was registered in England and Wales on 22 August 2006 as a company limited by guarantee.[2] In 2007, it held the first State of the Map conference in Manchester.

In October 2009, the foundation announced that its members, rather than the OpenStreetMap contributors at large, would vote on changing OpenStreetMap's data license from Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike to the Open Database License.[3]

Governance

The OpenStreetMap Foundation is a membership organization. Membership in the foundation is separate from a user account on the OpenStreetMap website: a user account is required to contribute to the map, while foundation membership entitles one to vote at a general meeting.[4]

The foundation is run by a board of seven members, including the foundation's officers: chairman, secretary and treasurer.[5] The board is elected by the foundation's dues-paying members. 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.[6][7]

Several working groups, composed mostly of volunteers, carry out day-to-day operations on behalf of the foundation:[8][9]

  • Data Working Group – countervandalism and dispute resolution[10][11][12]
  • Communication Working Group
  • Engineering Working Group
  • Legal or Licensing Working Group – trademark and licensing issues[3]
  • Local Chapters Working Group
  • Membership Working Group[8]
  • Operations Working Group
  • State of the Map Organizing Committee

Programs and initiatives

The OpenStreetMap Foundation promotes and supports the OpenStreetMap project but does not formally own the project or its contents.[13] The foundation's relatively low profile in OpenStreetMap's development has been contrasted with the Wikimedia Foundation's relationship to Wikipedia.[14][15]

In addition to day-to-day operations within the OpenStreetMap project, the foundation and its working groups run several initiatives to promote the project's growth. Its annual State of the Map conference is the flagship conference within the OpenStreetMap community. The GPStogo program lends GPS receivers to mappers in developing countries.[16]

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. ^ a b 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.
  4. ^ Anderson, Jennings; Sarkar, Dipto; Palen, Leysia (May 18, 2019). "Corporate Editors in the Evolving Landscape of OpenStreetMap". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 8 (5). International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: 232. doi:10.3390/ijgi8050232.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  5. ^ "Officers & Board". OpenStreetMap Foundation. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  6. ^ "Officers & Board".
  7. ^ "Board Member Bios". OpenStreetMap Foundation.
  8. ^ a b Spreng, Michael (September 21, 2019). Past and Future of the OpenStreetMap Foundation’s Membership Working Group (PDF). State of the Map. Heidelberg.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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)
  12. ^ 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)
  13. ^ Guo, Huadong; Goodchild, Michael F.; Annoni, Alessandro, eds. (January 1, 2020). Manual of Digital Earth. Springer Nature. p. 603. doi:10.1007/978-981-32-9915-3. ISBN 978-981-32-9914-6 – via Google Books.
  14. ^ Arsanjani, Jamal Jokar; Zipf, Alexander; Mooney, Peter; Helbich, Marco, eds. (March 3, 2015). OpenStreetMap in GIScience: Experiences, Research, and Applications. Springer. p. 153. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14280-7. ISBN 978-3-319-14279-1 – via Google Books.
  15. ^ Stalder, Felix (January 16, 2018). The Digital Condition. Translated by Pakis, Valentine A. Cambridge: Polity Press. p. 214. ISBN 978-1-5095-1959-0 – via Google Books.
  16. ^ Bennett, Jonathan (September 2010). OpenStreetMap. Birmingham: Packt. ISBN 9781847197511 – via Google Books.
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