September 10, 2024
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State of the Map 2024 took place in Nairobi last weekend. I did not attend, although i tried to get an idea by watching some of the video streams. With tried being the operative word here – the streaming infrastructure … Continue reading
July 17, 2024
by chris
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Five years ago i wrote about the 15th anniversary of OSM and my outlook into the next fifteen years. We now have the 20th anniversary. This is a bit early to review my predictions (with merely 1/3 of the time … Continue reading
February 4, 2024
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As i have indicated in my pre-AGM comment end of last year i intend to look at developments in the OpenStreetMap Foundation less on an acute level and regarding current events and more focus on long term developments, trying to … Continue reading
November 16, 2023
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The annual general meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation is approaching and some readers probably expect me to write about the last year in the OSMF and present an outlook on future developments. I do not plan to do so this … Continue reading
August 27, 2023
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A bit less than two years ago the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) started centrally imposing behavior regulation on OSMF provided communication channels – channels which were previously largely individually self governed by their users. Originally this applied only on two mailing … Continue reading
January 26, 2023
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There seems to be a new initiative initiated by members of the board of the OpenStreetMap Foundation to develop more elaborate strategic planning for the organization. This so far has not been widely communicated in public but it also is … Continue reading
December 22, 2022
by chris
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A lot of fuzz has been made in the OSM community in the past week about a new cooperation that has been announced to start between a number of US tech companies. I am not going to comment on this … Continue reading
November 23, 2022
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In this third part of this year’s discussion of the OSMF i am going to look at the overall trends in the organization as i see them. For the first two parts see here and here. It is hard to … Continue reading
November 18, 2022
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This is the second part of a series of blog posts on this year in the OSMF – you might also want to read the first part. Before i get to my look at current trends and the outlook on … Continue reading
November 15, 2022
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We are approaching the end of the year 2022 and that means the annual general meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation is coming up and it is time again to look at what happened in the last year and to update … Continue reading