OpenStreetMap Foundation explained

OpenStreetMap Foundation
Type:Company limited by guarantee
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Registration Id:05912761
Location:St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS, United Kingdom
Expenses:£91,607 (expenses for 2011-12)[1]

The OpenStreetMap Foundation (abbreviated OSMF) is a non-profit foundation whose aim is to support and enable the development of freely-reusable geospatial data. Founded in 2006, 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. 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.[2]

In September 2013, the foundation began accepting corporate memberships in an "associate member" (nonvoting) category. The initial corporate members were Geofabrik, Geotab, Naver, NextGIS, and Mapbox.[3] [4]

Active contributors membership program was introduced in August 2020. As per this active contributors to OpenStreetMap through editing (at least 42 active days in the latest period of one year) or off-line activities can apply for free of cost membership. They will have voting rights for electing board members.[5]

In June 2021, the foundation stated that the effects of Brexit have prompted them to consider a move back into the European Union due to issues with database rights, difficulties with getting charitable status for the foundation, and the increasing difficulty of using PayPal and banking in the United Kingdom. The foundation has not announced the location of its new headquarters.[6] As of February 2024, the candidates for relocation are Belgium and Luxembourg.[7]

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.[8]

The foundation is run by a board of seven members, including the foundation's officers: chairman, secretary and treasurer. The board is elected by the foundation's dues-paying members., the board consists of Guillaume Rischard (Chairperson), Craig Allan (Secretary), Roland Olbricht (Treasurer), Sarah Hoffmann, Mateusz Konieczny, Arnalie Vicario, Daniela Waltersdorfer.[9]

Several working groups, composed mostly of volunteers, carry out day-to-day operations on behalf of the foundation:[10] [11]

Several local chapters are affiliated with the OpenStreetMap Foundation.[15]

Programs and initiatives

The OpenStreetMap Foundation promotes and supports the OpenStreetMap project, but does not formally own the project or its contents.[16] The foundation's relatively low profile in OpenStreetMap's development has been contrasted with the Wikimedia Foundation's relationship to Wikipedia.[17] [18]

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.[19]

Notable people

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Finances/Income 2012 - OSMF . Osmfoundation.org . 2013-08-15.
  2. Contributors' enrollment in collaborative online communities: the case of OpenStreetMap. Daniel. Bégin. Rodolphe. Devillers. Stéphane. Roche. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. Taylor & Francis. 32. 8. 2018. 1611–1630. 10.1080/10095020.2017.1370177. free.
  3. Welcoming our first Corporate Members. OpenStreetMap Foundation. 20 July 2014. 3 May 2020.
  4. NextGIS among first OpenStreetMap Foundation's corporate members. NextGIS. 21 July 2014. 3 May 2020.
  5. Web site: Active OSM contributor? You can now easily join the OpenStreetMap Foundation . 2020-08-20 . 2023-08-07 . OpenStreetMap.
  6. Web site: Hern . Alex . 2021-06-30 . OpenStreetMap looks to relocate to EU due to Brexit limitations . 2021-06-30 . The Guardian . en-uk .
  7. Web site: Board/Minutes/2024-02 - OpenStreetMap Foundation . 2024-06-22 . osmfoundation.org.
  8. Corporate Editors in the Evolving Landscape of OpenStreetMap. Jennings. Anderson. Dipto. Sarkar. Leysia. Palen. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 8. 5. May 18, 2019. 232. 10.3390/ijgi8050232. 2019IJGI....8..232A. free.
  9. Web site: Officers & Board. OpenStreetMap Foundation. March 28, 2024. April 3, 2024.
  10. Past and Future of the OpenStreetMap Foundation's Membership Working Group. Michael. Spreng. State of the Map. Heidelberg. September 21, 2019.
  11. Web site: Crowdsourced Geospatial Data. Matthew T.. Rice. Fabiana I.. Paez. Aaron P.. Mulhollen. Brandon M.. Shore. Douglas R.. Caldwell. United States Army Topographic Engineering Center. Alexandria, Virginia. November 2012. 104–105. February 13, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20200711171304/https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a576607.pdf#page=115. live. July 11, 2020. PDF.
  12. Andrea. Ballatore. Defacing the map: Cartographic vandalism in the digital commons. The Cartographic Journal. Taylor & Francis. 2014. 51. 3. 16. 1404.3341. 10.1179/1743277414y.0000000085. 2014CartJ..51..214B . 1828882.
  13. Towards Automatic Vandalism Detection in OpenStreetMap. Pascal. Neis. Marcus. Goetz. Alexander. Zipf. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. November 22, 2012. 1. 3. 315–332. 10.3390/ijgi1030315. 2012IJGI....1..315N. free.
  14. How geopolitical conflict shapes the mass-produced online map. Sterling D.. Quinn. Doran A.. Tucker. First Monday. 22. 11. November 6, 2017. 10.5210/fm.v22i11.7922. free.
  15. Plotting practices and politics: (im)mutable narratives in OpenStreetMap. Chris. Perkins. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Wiley-Blackwell. 39. 2. 2014. 307. 10.1111/tran.12022. 24582895. 2014TrIBG..39..304P .
  16. Book: Manual of Digital Earth. Huadong. Guo. Michael F.. Goodchild. Alessandro. Annoni. Springer Nature. January 1, 2020. 603. 978-981-32-9914-6. 10.1007/978-981-32-9915-3. 208086021. Google Books.
  17. Book: OpenStreetMap in GIScience: Experiences, Research, and Applications. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Jamal Jokar. Arsanjani. Alexander. Zipf. Peter. Mooney. Marco. Helbich. Springer. March 3, 2015. 153. 978-3-319-14279-1. 10.1007/978-3-319-14280-7. 30689822. Google Books.
  18. Book: Stalder, Felix. The Digital Condition. Valentine A.. Pakis. Polity Press. Cambridge. January 16, 2018. 214. 978-1-5095-1959-0. Google Books.
  19. Book: Bennett, Jonathan. OpenStreetMap. Packt. Birmingham. September 2010. 9781847197511. Google Books.
  20. Web site: Board grants project founder the title of "Chairman Emeritus". Henk. Hoff. OpenStreetMap Foundation. 16 August 2012. 1 March 2023.
  21. exit. Steve. Coast. osmf-talk. 6 January 2016. 1 March 2023.
  22. Web site: Officers & Board. OpenStreetMap Foundation. July 6, 2021. July 9, 2021.

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