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href="/wiki/About/de" title="About/de">Deutsch</a> <a href="/wiki/About/es" title="About/es">Español</a> <a href="/wiki/About/it" title="About/it">Italiano</a> <a href="/wiki/About/jp" title="About/jp">日本語</a> <a href="/wiki/About/ru" title="About/ru">Pусский</a> <a href="/wiki/About/pt-br" title="About/pt-br">Português Brasileiro</a> <a href="/wiki/About/uk" title="About/uk">Українська</a> </p><p>The OpenStreetMap Foundation is a UK-registered not-for-profit organization that supports the OpenStreetMap Project. The OpenStreetMap Project based at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.OpenStreetMap.org">OpenStreetMap.org</a>, is the worldwide mapping effort that includes more than a million volunteers around the globe. </p><p>The foundation consists of <a href="/wiki/Membership" title="Membership">members</a> from around the world who elect its <a href="/wiki/Officers_%26_Board" title="Officers & Board">board of directors</a> </p><p>Much of the foundation’s extensive work is done in the background, yet is critical to the ongoing functioning and growth of the OpenStreetMap Project. </p><p>The foundation supports the project with several key functions: </p> <ul><li>As a UK-registered limited company, the foundation acts as a legal entity for the OpenStreetMap Project.</li> <li>The foundation is the custodian for the computer servers and services necessary to host the OpenStreetMap project.</li> <li>Provides a vehicle for fund-raising to support the project. The foundation can accept donations for the OpenStreetMap Project and allocate those donations to OpenStreetMap Project activities.</li> <li>Organizes the annual conference, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://stateofthemap.org/">State-of-the-map</a></li> <li>Supports and communicates with the working groups, such as communications, licensing, etc. The foundation board at times will delegate various tasks to working groups, such as public relations, Web site development, etc.</li></ul> <p>OpenStreetMap is an open initiative to create and provide free map data to anyone who wants them. </p> <h2><span id="Name_.26_Registered_Office:"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Name_&_Registered_Office:">Name & Registered Office:</span></h2> <p>Openstreetmap Foundation<br /> St John’s Innovation Centre<br /> Cowley Road<br /> Cambridge<br /> CB4 0WS<br /> United Kingdom </p><p>A company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales. </p><p>Company Registration Number: 05912761<br /> D-U-N-S® Number: 779431639 </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Incorporation" title="Incorporation">More details of OSMF 'Incorporation'</a></i> </p> <!-- NewPP limit report Cached time: 20241127082509 Cache expiry: 86400 Reduced expiry: false Complications: [] CPU time usage: 0.008 seconds Real time usage: 0.009 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 14/1000000 Post‐expand include size: 0/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 0/2097152 bytes Highest expansion depth: 2/100 Expensive parser function count: 0/500 Unstrip recursion depth: 0/20 Unstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes --> <!-- Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template) 100.00% 0.000 1 -total --> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key osmf?hwiki:pcache:idhash:355-0!canonical and timestamp 20241127082509 and revision id 9407. --> </div></div> <div class="printfooter"> Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://osmfoundation.org/w/index.php?title=About&oldid=9407">https://osmfoundation.org/w/index.php?title=About&oldid=9407</a>" </div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks catlinks-allhidden" data-mw="interface"></div> <div class="visualClear"></div> </div> </main> </div> <footer id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="first-row"> <div id="mw-personal"> <div id="p-personal" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="p-personal-label"> <h3 id="p-personal-label">Personal tools</h3> <ul> <li id="pt-uls" class="mw-list-item active"><a class="uls-trigger" href="#">English</a></li><li id="pt-login" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=About" title="You are encouraged to log in; however, it is not mandatory [o]" accesskey="o">Log in</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer--lastmod"> This page was last edited on 31 March 2022, at 15:33.</li> <li id="footer--copyright">Content is available under <a href="/wiki/Wiki_content_license" title="Wiki content license">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license</a> unless otherwise noted.</li> </ul> </div> <div class="second-row"> <div class="page-nav"> <div id="left-navigation"> <div id="p-namespaces" role="navigation" class="vectorTabs" aria-labelledby="p-namespaces-label"> <h3 id="p-namespaces-label">Namespaces</h3> <ul> <li id="ca-nstab-main" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/About" attributes=" id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected"" key=" title="View the content page [c]" accesskey="c"" title="View the content page [c]" accesskey="c">Page</a></li><li id="ca-talk" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Talk:About&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="discussion" attributes=" id="ca-talk" class="new"" key=" title="Discussion about the content page [t]" accesskey="t"" title="Discussion about the content page (page does not exist) [t]" accesskey="t">Discussion</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="p-variants" role="navigation" class="vectorMenu emptyPortlet" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label"> <input type="checkbox" class="vectorMenuCheckbox" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label" /> <h3 id="p-variants-label"> <span>Variants</span> </h3> <ul class="menu"> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="right-navigation"> <div id="p-views" role="navigation" class="vectorTabs" aria-labelledby="p-views-label"> <h3 id="p-views-label">Views</h3> <ul> <li id="ca-view" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/About" attributes=" id="ca-view" class="selected"" key="">Read</a></li><li id="ca-viewsource" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=About&action=edit" attributes=" id="ca-viewsource"" key=" title="This page is protected.&#10;You can view its source [e]" accesskey="e"" title="This page is protected. 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