OpenStreetMap Foundation
The OpenStreetMap Foundation is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales on 22 August 2006. It 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.
Structure
Membership
OSMF is a membership organisation, with all members entitled to vote at a general meeting on foundation activities. OSMF members do not determine how OpenStreetMap itself operates, just how the foundation supports the OpenStreetMap movement. Membership is open to all on payment of the membership fee of £15 per year.Since September 2013, the foundation accepts corporate memberships in a "associated member" category. Founding corporate members are Geofabrik, Geotab, Naver, NextGIS and Mapbox.
, the foundation has 972 Normal members, 515 Associate members and 28 Corporate members.
Board
The foundation is run by a board of seven members, including the foundation's officers: chairman, secretary and treasurer., the board is:
- Allan Mustard
- Joost Schouppe
- Guillaume Rischard
- Mikel Maron
- Paul Norman
- Rory McCann
- Tobias Knerr
Working Groups
The groups are:
- Licensing
- * Handles issues related to licensing
- Data
- * Resolve issues with data that the community can't resolve themselves
- Operations
- * Maintenance of OSM servers
- Engineering
- * Coordinate Google Summer of Code
- Communication
- * Maintain public communication channels and respond to press contacts
- StateoftheMap Organizing Committee
- * Plans and executes annual SOTM conference
- Membership
- * Handles the membership database and any membership queries
- Local Chapters and Communities
- * Works to encourage formation of local chapters and strengthen
Local chapters
| Country | Name |
| , trading as "OpenStreetMap Belgium" | |
| , trading as "OpenStreetMap Deutschland" | |
| Ireland | |
| , trading as "OpenStreetMap Italia" | |