One of the essential characteristics of the OpenStreetMap project I have known and been active in for well over a decade is that it is made and run by vol…

This year, we are again presenting the OpenStreetMap Awards! Seven nominees will receive an award in seven categories at the State of the Map 2020 confere…

Pilina means connection, relationship, and association and is an important value in Hawaiian culture that encourages inclusivity and collaborations to ach…

About 70% of our members are normal members. In short, normal membership gives you more voting rights, associate membership gives you more privacy, corpor…

OpenStreetMap is the largest open geographic database in the world, the data infrastructure for multitudes of mapping projects around the globe. Your dona…

OSMF Operations Working Group We’re the Operations Working Group (OWG) for the OpenStreetMap Foundation. The OWG is responsible for proposing the budget …

If you have a voucher, please insert the code first. Afterwards you can select your ticket. If you already ordered a ticket If you want to see or change t…

One of the simplest options strategies is known as the covered call. For this strategy, an investor who already owns a stock elects to sell (or write) an …

This user refuses to translate articles or read article translations because they think that the technical possibilities for translating are not used appr…

OpenStreetMap is an initiative to create and provide free geographic data, such as street maps, to anyone. The OpenStreetMap Foundation is an internationa…

# OSM Blog post on Int. Day of Persons with Disabilities ###### tags: `cwg` **Blog post title: ?** The [International Day of Persons with Disabilities](ht…

This page is devoted to identifying OSM's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). Please add to the lists below under the appropriate he…

We recently read two blog posts from Robot Wealth and FOSS Trading on calculating rolling pairwise correlations for the constituents of an S&P 500 sector …

In our last post , we ran through a bunch of weighting scenarios using our returns simulation. This resulted in three million portfolios comprised in part…

OSM Composer is a GUI for simplifying the process of creating Garmin map images from OSM and SRTM data. It does not generate maps itself but controls exi…

Reflections on OpenStreetMap by someone who makes it I’ve been a member of the OSMF board of directors for over seven years now (since September, 2012), …

The OSM Renderer for ArcGIS depends on ESRI's ArcGIS for Desktop, and especially ESRI's Open Source "ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap" as hosted on GitHub …

Our last post on rebalancing struck an equivocal note. We ran a thousand simulations using historical averages across different rebalancing regimes to tes…

Donation to OSMF by MapQuest/AOL More great news for OpenStreetMap! A gift of fifty thousand dollars has been donated by MapQuest/AOL to the OpenStreetMa…

In our last post , we analyzed the performance of our portfolio, built using the historical average method to set return expectations. We calculated retur…

Weighting on a friend Our last few posts on portfolio construction have simulated various weighting schemes to create a range of possible portfolios. We’…

Say you’ve built a little nest egg thanks to some discipline and frugality. And now you realize that you should probably invest that money so that you’ve …

From the early days of OpenStreetMap it was anticipated that open, free map data would be a tremendous benefit for humanitarian aid and economic developme…

Rebalancing ruminations Back in the rebalancing saddle! In our last post on rebalancing, we analyzed whether rebalancing over different periods would hav…

Members of the Foundation are entitled to vote in the affairs of the Foundation. They have no special say in how the OpenStreetMap project is run, just th…

--- tags: osmf --- # 2023 on the OSMF Board: Our individual views The new Board met together earlier this month for our informal mid month chat. The first…

In our last post , we explored mean-variance optimization (MVO) and finally reached the efficient frontier. In the process, we found that different return…

The OSMF is an international not-for-profit organisation “supporting, but not controlling” the OpenStreetMap project. Like us, it is dedicated to encourag…

The Microgrants/Committee was selected by the OSMF Board to implement and run the project. They run the selection process and guide the selected projects …

The OSMF is in the process of setting up a network of national and regional chapters. Local Chapters are country-level or region-level not-for-profit lega…

Working Groups are the main way in which the Foundation supports OSM in specific areas. Some are more active than others. Working Groups may include a mem…

The OpenStreetMap marks represent OpenStreetMap and its work to bring open map data to the entire world. When users see the OpenStreetMap name and logo, t…

You can add a subdomain to the beginning to help pipeline concurrent browser requests, e.g. a.tile.stamen.com , b.tile.stamen.com , up to d . This terrain…

Arnalie from the Philippines, username: arnalielsewhere , advocates for open data and is passionate about building inclusive spaces in the open mapping an…

The creation of the committee, named "fundraising committee" and with an initial charter focused on fundraising, was decided in December 2020 , and initia…

The OSM data that Apple is using is rather old (start of April 2010) so don’t expect to see your latest and greatest updates on there. It’s also missing t…

How can OSM be more diverse and inclusive? What can we do to improve this across all the various OSM spaces, including OSM governance? Diversity is the ra…

Minutes approved by the board on 2023-04-27. The topics of the agenda get locked one week before the meeting. Please note that the individual points men…

Putting out calls for proposals on tasks of interest, and accepting proposals on other tasks Offering a platform for coordination of software development …

The OpenStreetMap project is unique in its global diffusion of crowdsourced data collection, distributed responsibility for data quality control, and dive…

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety , for regulating the usage of living modified organisms (LMO) including genetically modified organisms (GMO) , and of …

The promotion of open geospatial data through practical, coherent and clear licensing is our number one priority. Moving forward from the licence change i…

Annual General Meetings (AGMs) are held once per year, on the second Saturday of December from 2021 onward ( decision ). The main order of business is to …

Discussion on if we had decided at the last meeting to require Icelandic template contract to be reviewed by the board after information had been filled o…

We welcome OSMF members to observe the public meetings and ask questions Public board meetings are generally held online once per month - currently on t…

OSM is mostly a consensus-based community, or a do-ocracy. It was never a benevolent dictatorship, and I have given up (as far as I know, anyway) all pow…

The OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) is committed to supporting the growth and development of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project while adhering to the highest…

The Companies Acts 1985 and 1989 COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL Memorandum of Association OF OpenStreetMap Foundation 1…

The key priority for this group is ensuring the operation and smooth running of the XML editing API and data distribution services (planet files and diff …

The OSMF board , Working Groups and the Committees largely consist of volunteers. In some circumstance we also bring on individuals for paid work as emplo…

Adoption of new Articles of Association The board of the the OpenStreetMap Foundation (the “Foundation”) propose that the following resolution is passed…

Blog post after the meeting We'll invite additions and modifications, and then prioritize and work through them. 13h Opening Session The meeting will be …

State of the Map is the global conference of the OpenStreetMap project . Join us in Brussels, Belgium from September 23rd–25th as we bring the community t…

the "Engineering Working Group"[1] is a new group set up with the purpose of helping stimulate the development community surrounding OSM. you don't need t…

The Text Layout Framework is an extensible ActionScript library, built on the new text engine in Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5, which deliver…

"electronic form" has the meaning given in section 1168 of the Companies Act 2006; "member" has the meaning given in section 112 of the Companies Act 2006;

We are involved in communicating the work of the Foundation and related news, through official channels. We are also welcoming people that want to get inv…

OSM runs an Envoy-based control plane on Kubernetes and can be configured with SMI APIs. OSM works by injecting an Envoy proxy as a sidecar container with…

We have a set of free leaflets that explain the basics of OpenStreetMap. Get yours here. Free leaflets available We have produced a series of leaflets to …

The OSM Foundation has created a set of guidelines that summarize expectations, consensus and established conventions based on discussions with the commun…

The OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) is an international not-for-profit organization supporting, but not controlling, the OpenStreetMap Project. It is dedi…

The OSMF Advisory Board is set up for the OSMF Board to consult on important matters. It currently consists of Corporate Members (at Gold level and above…

Regional SotMs are organised exclusively by local teams, not by the OpenStreetMap Foundation: Please note that regional SotMs (such as SotM-Asia, SotM-Af…

OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is distributed under the Open Database License (ODbL). If you want to use OpenStreetMap data in something you create and distribu…

The OSMF Board resolved in August 2020 to create a Software Dispute Resolution Panel . The full proposal for the Panel can be found here . The community c…

Board unanimously decides that OSMF generally won’t accept donations that are dependant on some condition to be met before funds are transferred to us. (D…

Dear OSMF voting members and mappers, This short note (also published in my diary [1]) to draw your attention on the danger for OSMF (and the OSM project)…

The OpenStreetMap Foundation works best with a large membership base. The Foundation has decided that everyone who contributes significantly to the projec…

Heather, As of today, since you created your OSM account in July 11th, 2011, you have been active as a mapper over 11 days, adding a total of 1 new highw…

The Scoring Criteria should go to the respective section of the Project Funding Framework. Our GitHub repository is now operational . Roland volunteers to…

Dear members, Proxy voting by email has now opened for the OSMF Board elections. Proxy votes may be cast until 17:00 UTC on 5th September 2012. Vote in ac…

It has come to my attention that some members are voting for less than 4 candidates. In case this was not intentional, I'd like to remind you all that you…

In October 2010 I introduced taginfo . Since then I have updated it occasionally and added new functions. And over time it has become part of the “ OSM la…

This list is not a recommendation from the OpenStreetMap community or the OSMF It is a list to which everyone can add themselves. These companies offer …

OSMF License Working Group created this page for use in the license upgrade discussion. OpenStreetMap's license is a free share-alike license. I.e. you a…

This resolution was voted on by email and therefore is not minuted in a regular meeting, and was urgent enough to not wait for the next meeting to post it.

Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the task, relevant codebases, and applicable technologies. Clearly defines the scope of work to be completed. Inc…

There is a new automated process for active mappers, please use that form for active mapping applications and renewals. If you have any problems with the …

Yeah, he’s from Austria as he said earlier in this topic - I assumed he meant desolate or undeveloped and wasn’t going to call him on it (not pointing fin…

In the first part of this blog post i summarized the most important developments in the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) during the past year from my persp…

One of the essential characteristics of the OpenStreetMap project I have known and been active in for well over a decade is that it is made and run by vol…

This year, we are again presenting the OpenStreetMap Awards! Seven nominees will receive an award in seven categories at the State of the Map 2020 confere…

Pilina means connection, relationship, and association and is an important value in Hawaiian culture that encourages inclusivity and collaborations to ach…

About 70% of our members are normal members. In short, normal membership gives you more voting rights, associate membership gives you more privacy, corpor…

OpenStreetMap is the largest open geographic database in the world, the data infrastructure for multitudes of mapping projects around the globe. Your dona…

OSMF Operations Working Group We’re the Operations Working Group (OWG) for the OpenStreetMap Foundation. The OWG is responsible for proposing the budget …

If you have a voucher, please insert the code first. Afterwards you can select your ticket. If you already ordered a ticket If you want to see or change t…

One of the simplest options strategies is known as the covered call. For this strategy, an investor who already owns a stock elects to sell (or write) an …

This user refuses to translate articles or read article translations because they think that the technical possibilities for translating are not used appr…

OpenStreetMap is an initiative to create and provide free geographic data, such as street maps, to anyone. The OpenStreetMap Foundation is an internationa…

# OSM Blog post on Int. Day of Persons with Disabilities ###### tags: `cwg` **Blog post title: ?** The [International Day of Persons with Disabilities](ht…

This page is devoted to identifying OSM's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). Please add to the lists below under the appropriate he…

We recently read two blog posts from Robot Wealth and FOSS Trading on calculating rolling pairwise correlations for the constituents of an S&P 500 sector …

In our last post , we ran through a bunch of weighting scenarios using our returns simulation. This resulted in three million portfolios comprised in part…

OSM Composer is a GUI for simplifying the process of creating Garmin map images from OSM and SRTM data. It does not generate maps itself but controls exi…

Reflections on OpenStreetMap by someone who makes it I’ve been a member of the OSMF board of directors for over seven years now (since September, 2012), …

The OSM Renderer for ArcGIS depends on ESRI's ArcGIS for Desktop, and especially ESRI's Open Source "ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap" as hosted on GitHub …

Our last post on rebalancing struck an equivocal note. We ran a thousand simulations using historical averages across different rebalancing regimes to tes…

Donation to OSMF by MapQuest/AOL More great news for OpenStreetMap! A gift of fifty thousand dollars has been donated by MapQuest/AOL to the OpenStreetMa…

In our last post , we analyzed the performance of our portfolio, built using the historical average method to set return expectations. We calculated retur…

Weighting on a friend Our last few posts on portfolio construction have simulated various weighting schemes to create a range of possible portfolios. We’…

Say you’ve built a little nest egg thanks to some discipline and frugality. And now you realize that you should probably invest that money so that you’ve …

From the early days of OpenStreetMap it was anticipated that open, free map data would be a tremendous benefit for humanitarian aid and economic developme…

Rebalancing ruminations Back in the rebalancing saddle! In our last post on rebalancing, we analyzed whether rebalancing over different periods would hav…

Members of the Foundation are entitled to vote in the affairs of the Foundation. They have no special say in how the OpenStreetMap project is run, just th…

--- tags: osmf --- # 2023 on the OSMF Board: Our individual views The new Board met together earlier this month for our informal mid month chat. The first…

In our last post , we explored mean-variance optimization (MVO) and finally reached the efficient frontier. In the process, we found that different return…

The OSMF is an international not-for-profit organisation “supporting, but not controlling” the OpenStreetMap project. Like us, it is dedicated to encourag…

The Microgrants/Committee was selected by the OSMF Board to implement and run the project. They run the selection process and guide the selected projects …

The OSMF is in the process of setting up a network of national and regional chapters. Local Chapters are country-level or region-level not-for-profit lega…

Working Groups are the main way in which the Foundation supports OSM in specific areas. Some are more active than others. Working Groups may include a mem…

The OpenStreetMap marks represent OpenStreetMap and its work to bring open map data to the entire world. When users see the OpenStreetMap name and logo, t…

You can add a subdomain to the beginning to help pipeline concurrent browser requests, e.g. a.tile.stamen.com , b.tile.stamen.com , up to d . This terrain…

Arnalie from the Philippines, username: arnalielsewhere , advocates for open data and is passionate about building inclusive spaces in the open mapping an…

The creation of the committee, named "fundraising committee" and with an initial charter focused on fundraising, was decided in December 2020 , and initia…

The OSM data that Apple is using is rather old (start of April 2010) so don’t expect to see your latest and greatest updates on there. It’s also missing t…

How can OSM be more diverse and inclusive? What can we do to improve this across all the various OSM spaces, including OSM governance? Diversity is the ra…

Minutes approved by the board on 2023-04-27. The topics of the agenda get locked one week before the meeting. Please note that the individual points men…

Putting out calls for proposals on tasks of interest, and accepting proposals on other tasks Offering a platform for coordination of software development …

The OpenStreetMap project is unique in its global diffusion of crowdsourced data collection, distributed responsibility for data quality control, and dive…

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety , for regulating the usage of living modified organisms (LMO) including genetically modified organisms (GMO) , and of …

The promotion of open geospatial data through practical, coherent and clear licensing is our number one priority. Moving forward from the licence change i…

Annual General Meetings (AGMs) are held once per year, on the second Saturday of December from 2021 onward ( decision ). The main order of business is to …

Discussion on if we had decided at the last meeting to require Icelandic template contract to be reviewed by the board after information had been filled o…

We welcome OSMF members to observe the public meetings and ask questions Public board meetings are generally held online once per month - currently on t…

OSM is mostly a consensus-based community, or a do-ocracy. It was never a benevolent dictatorship, and I have given up (as far as I know, anyway) all pow…

The OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) is committed to supporting the growth and development of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project while adhering to the highest…

The Companies Acts 1985 and 1989 COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL Memorandum of Association OF OpenStreetMap Foundation 1…

The key priority for this group is ensuring the operation and smooth running of the XML editing API and data distribution services (planet files and diff …

The OSMF board , Working Groups and the Committees largely consist of volunteers. In some circumstance we also bring on individuals for paid work as emplo…

Adoption of new Articles of Association The board of the the OpenStreetMap Foundation (the “Foundation”) propose that the following resolution is passed…

Blog post after the meeting We'll invite additions and modifications, and then prioritize and work through them. 13h Opening Session The meeting will be …

State of the Map is the global conference of the OpenStreetMap project . Join us in Brussels, Belgium from September 23rd–25th as we bring the community t…

the "Engineering Working Group"[1] is a new group set up with the purpose of helping stimulate the development community surrounding OSM. you don't need t…

The Text Layout Framework is an extensible ActionScript library, built on the new text engine in Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5, which deliver…

"electronic form" has the meaning given in section 1168 of the Companies Act 2006; "member" has the meaning given in section 112 of the Companies Act 2006;

We are involved in communicating the work of the Foundation and related news, through official channels. We are also welcoming people that want to get inv…

OSM runs an Envoy-based control plane on Kubernetes and can be configured with SMI APIs. OSM works by injecting an Envoy proxy as a sidecar container with…

We have a set of free leaflets that explain the basics of OpenStreetMap. Get yours here. Free leaflets available We have produced a series of leaflets to …

The OSM Foundation has created a set of guidelines that summarize expectations, consensus and established conventions based on discussions with the commun…

The OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) is an international not-for-profit organization supporting, but not controlling, the OpenStreetMap Project. It is dedi…

The OSMF Advisory Board is set up for the OSMF Board to consult on important matters. It currently consists of Corporate Members (at Gold level and above…

Regional SotMs are organised exclusively by local teams, not by the OpenStreetMap Foundation: Please note that regional SotMs (such as SotM-Asia, SotM-Af…

OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is distributed under the Open Database License (ODbL). If you want to use OpenStreetMap data in something you create and distribu…

The OSMF Board resolved in August 2020 to create a Software Dispute Resolution Panel . The full proposal for the Panel can be found here . The community c…

Board unanimously decides that OSMF generally won’t accept donations that are dependant on some condition to be met before funds are transferred to us. (D…

Dear OSMF voting members and mappers, This short note (also published in my diary [1]) to draw your attention on the danger for OSMF (and the OSM project)…

The OpenStreetMap Foundation works best with a large membership base. The Foundation has decided that everyone who contributes significantly to the projec…

Heather, As of today, since you created your OSM account in July 11th, 2011, you have been active as a mapper over 11 days, adding a total of 1 new highw…

The Scoring Criteria should go to the respective section of the Project Funding Framework. Our GitHub repository is now operational . Roland volunteers to…

Dear members, Proxy voting by email has now opened for the OSMF Board elections. Proxy votes may be cast until 17:00 UTC on 5th September 2012. Vote in ac…

It has come to my attention that some members are voting for less than 4 candidates. In case this was not intentional, I'd like to remind you all that you…

In October 2010 I introduced taginfo . Since then I have updated it occasionally and added new functions. And over time it has become part of the “ OSM la…

This list is not a recommendation from the OpenStreetMap community or the OSMF It is a list to which everyone can add themselves. These companies offer …

OSMF License Working Group created this page for use in the license upgrade discussion. OpenStreetMap's license is a free share-alike license. I.e. you a…

This resolution was voted on by email and therefore is not minuted in a regular meeting, and was urgent enough to not wait for the next meeting to post it.

Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the task, relevant codebases, and applicable technologies. Clearly defines the scope of work to be completed. Inc…

There is a new automated process for active mappers, please use that form for active mapping applications and renewals. If you have any problems with the …

Yeah, he’s from Austria as he said earlier in this topic - I assumed he meant desolate or undeveloped and wasn’t going to call him on it (not pointing fin…

In the first part of this blog post i summarized the most important developments in the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) during the past year from my persp…