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{{Short description|British non-profit organisation}}
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The '''OpenStreetMap Foundation''' (abbreviated '''OSMF''') is a
== History ==
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The OpenStreetMap Foundation was registered in [[England and Wales]] on 22 August 2006 as a [[company limited by guarantee]].<ref name=companieshouse /> 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]].<ref name="Bégin">{{cite journal|title=
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]].<ref>{{cite press release|title=Welcoming our first Corporate Members|publisher=OpenStreetMap Foundation|date=20 July 2014|accessdate=3 May 2020|url=https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/07/20/welcome-corporate-members/}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|title=NextGIS among first OpenStreetMap Foundation's corporate members|publisher=NextGIS|date=21 July 2014|accessdate=3 May 2020|url=https://nextgis.com/blog/osm-foundation/}}</ref> In 2018, [[GlobalLogic]] was [[GlobalLogic#OpenStreetMap Foundation 2018 elections incident|implicated in a coordinated effort]] to sign up employees as individual members.
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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2020/08/20/active-osm-contributor-membership-program/ |title=Active OSM contributor? You can now easily join the OpenStreetMap Foundation |date=2020-08-20 |access-date=2023-08-07 |last= |publisher=OpenStreetMap}}</ref>
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 right]]s, 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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hern |first=Alex |date=2021-06-30 |title=OpenStreetMap looks to relocate to EU due to Brexit limitations |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/30/openstreetmap-looks-to-relocate-to-eu-due-to-brexit-limitations |access-date=2021-06-30 |website=The Guardian |language=en-uk }}</ref> As of February 2024, the candidates for relocation are [[Belgium]] and [[Luxembourg]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Board/Minutes/2024-02 - OpenStreetMap Foundation |url=https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2024-02 |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=osmfoundation.org}}</ref>
By the end of 2022, the foundation had recognized 18 local chapters worldwide, including OSM Austria, supporting regional growth and community engagement.
== 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.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Corporate Editors in the Evolving Landscape of OpenStreetMap|first1=Jennings|last1=Anderson|first2=Dipto|last2=Sarkar|first3=Leysia|last3=Palen|
The foundation is run by a board of seven members, including the foundation's officers: chairman, secretary and treasurer.<ref name=board /> The board is elected by the foundation's dues-paying members. {{Asof|
Several working groups, composed mostly of volunteers, carry out day-to-day operations on behalf of the foundation:<ref name="Spreng">{{cite conference|title=Past and Future of the OpenStreetMap
* Data Working Group{{snd}}
* Communication Working Group
* Engineering Working Group
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* [[State of the Map]] Organizing Committee
Several local chapters are affiliated with the OpenStreetMap Foundation.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Plotting practices and politics: (im)mutable narratives in OpenStreetMap|first=Chris|last=Perkins|
== Programs and initiatives ==
{{section stub|date=February 2021}}
The OpenStreetMap Foundation promotes and supports the [[OpenStreetMap]] project, but does not formally own the project or its contents.<ref>{{cite book|title=Manual of Digital Earth|editor1-first=Huadong|editor1-last=Guo|editor2-first=Michael F.|editor2-last=Goodchild|editor3-first=Alessandro|editor3-last=Annoni|publisher=[[Springer Nature]]|date=January 1, 2020|page=603|isbn=978-981-32-9914-6|doi=10.1007/978-981-32-9915-3|s2cid=208086021|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HvK-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA603|via=Google Books}}</ref> The foundation's relatively low profile in OpenStreetMap's development has been contrasted with the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]'s relationship to [[Wikipedia]].<ref>{{cite book|title=OpenStreetMap in GIScience: Experiences, Research, and Applications|series=Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography|editor1-first=Jamal Jokar|editor1-last=Arsanjani|editor2-first=Alexander|editor2-last=Zipf|editor3-first=Peter|editor3-last=Mooney|editor4-first=Marco|editor4-last=Helbich|publisher=Springer|date=March 3, 2015|page=153|isbn=978-3-319-14279-1|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-14280-7|s2cid=30689822|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uHIKBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA153|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Digital Condition|first=Felix|last=Stalder|translator-first=Valentine A.|translator-last=Pakis|publisher=[[Polity Press]]|___location=Cambridge|date=January 16, 2018|page=214|isbn=978-1-5095-1959-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eVhHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT214|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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 [[Satellite navigation device|GPS receiver]]s to mappers in developing countries.<ref>{{cite book|title=OpenStreetMap|first=Jonathan|last=Bennett|publisher=Packt|___location=Birmingham|date=September 2010|isbn=9781847197511|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZfqRcPXApoC&pg=PT42|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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* [[Steve Coast]]{{snd}} former board chairman emeritus; founder of OpenStreetMap<ref>{{cite web|title=Board grants project founder the title of "Chairman Emeritus"|first=Henk|last=Hoff|publisher=OpenStreetMap Foundation|date=16 August 2012|accessdate=1 March 2023|url=https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2012/08/16/board-grants-project-founder-the-title-of-chairman-emeritus/}}</ref><ref>{{cite mailing list|title=exit|first=Steve|last=Coast|mailing-list=osmf-talk|date=6 January 2016|accessdate=1 March 2023|url=https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2016-January/003655.html}}</ref>
* [[Allan Mustard]]{{snd}} former board member;<ref>{{cite web|title=Officers & Board|publisher=OpenStreetMap Foundation|date=July 6, 2021|accessdate=July 9, 2021|url=https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/8513}}</ref> retired U.S. ambassador
== See also ==
* [[Open Knowledge Foundation]]
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== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
* {{Official website}}
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