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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=Contributors’Contributors' enrollment in collaborative online communities: the case of OpenStreetMap|first1=Daniel|last1=Bégin|first2=Rodolphe|last2=Devillers|first3=Stéphane|last3=Roche|workjournal=[[International Journal of Geographical Information Science]]|publisher=Taylor & Francis|volume=32|issue=8|date=2018|pages=1611–1630|doi=10.1080/10095020.2017.1370177|doi-access=free}}</ref>

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’sFoundation's corporate members|publisher=NextGIS|date=21 July 2014|accessdate=3 May 2020|url=https://nextgis.com/blog/osm-foundation/}}</ref>

== 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|workjournal=[[ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information]]|publisher=International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing|volume=8|issue=5|date=May 18, 2019|page=232|doi=10.3390/ijgi8050232|bibcode=2019IJGI....8..232A|doi-access=free}}</ref>

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|2020|12}}, the board consists of [[Allan Mustard]] (Chairperson), Rory McCann (Secretary), Guillaume Rischard (Treasurer), Tobias Knerr, Jean-Marc Liotier, Mikel Maron, and Eugene Alvin Villar.<ref>{{cite web|title=Officers & Board|url=https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Officers_%26_Board}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board_Member_Bios|title=Board Member Bios|publisher=OpenStreetMap Foundation}}</ref>

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 Foundation’sFoundation's Membership Working Group|first=Michael|last=Spreng|conference=[[State of the Map]]|___location=Heidelberg|date=September 21, 2019|url=https://pretalx.com/media/sotm2019/submissions/FAGNLA/resources/Spreng_Rischard_past_and_future.pdf|format=PDF}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Crowdsourced Geospatial Data|first1=Matthew T.|last1=Rice|first2=Fabiana I.|last2=Paez|first3=Aaron P.|last3=Mulhollen|first4=Brandon M.|last4=Shore|first5=Douglas R.|last5=Caldwell|publisher=[[Army Geospatial Center|United States Army Topographic Engineering Center]]|___location=Alexandria, Virginia|date=November 2012|pages=104–105|accessdate=February 13, 2021|url=https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a576607.pdf#page=115|format=PDF}}</ref>

* Data Working Group{{snd}} countervandalism and dispute resolution<ref>{{cite journal|first=Andrea|last=Ballatore|title=Defacing the map: Cartographic vandalism in the digital commons|workjournal=[[The Cartographic Journal]]|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date=2014|volume=51|number=3|page=16|arxiv=1404.3341|doi=10.1179/1743277414y.0000000085|s2cid=1828882}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Towards Automatic Vandalism Detection in OpenStreetMap|first1=Pascal|last1=Neis|first2=Marcus|last2=Goetz|first3=Alexander|last3=Zipf|workjournal=ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information|publisher=International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing|date=November 22, 2012|volume=1|issue=3|pages=315–332|url=https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/1/3/315/htm|doi=10.3390/ijgi1030315|bibcode=2012IJGI....1..315N|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=How geopolitical conflict shapes the mass-produced online map|first1=Sterling D.|last1=Quinn|first2=Doran A.|last2=Tucker|workjournal=[[First Monday (journal)|First Monday]]|volume=22|number=11|date=November 6, 2017|doi=10.5210/fm.v22i11.7922|url=https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7922}}</ref>

* 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|workjournal=[[Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers]]|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|volume=39|number=2|date=2014|page=307|doi=10.1111/tran.12022|jstor=24582895|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24582895}}</ref>

== Programs and initiatives ==

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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>