Advisory Board

What is the Advisory Board?

The Advisory Board is a group of individuals that the OpenStreetMap Foundation Board of Directors may consult on important decisions (either as a group, or as individuals). The Advisory Board can also raise their own issues or suggestions to the OSMF board. Much like an OSMF working group, the Advisory Board does not have a formal role or structure defined by the Articles of Association; to a large degree, the Advisory Board governs itself. The scope of what the Advisory Board discusses and how it organizes is a work in progress.

The Advisory Board consists of one representative each of our Bronze or higher¹ level corporate members of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, as well as one representative each of all properly established Local Chapters of the Foundation. Membership is optional, organizations may opt out of taking a seat on the Advisory Board.

The OSMF board will also keep a presence on the Advisory Board through one or more OSMF board members. OSMF board will also consider inviting individuals whose knowledge or experience is deemed beneficial to the group. The OSMF Board of Directors has the ultimate say about who may participate in the Advisory Board, and may use this discretion to ensure a positive environment.

¹ Changed on 2023-07-27. Previously, only Gold or Platinum Corporate Members could have representatives on the Advisory Board.

Communications

Advisory Board members communicate via a dedicated mailing list. Unless and until the Advisory Board itself determines otherwise, discussions in the Advisory Board are private.

However, to ensure transparency, the OSMF Board of Directors will publicly minute, in their board meeting minutes, any communication sent to, or received from, the Advisory Board.

Overview of communications

Please note that the emails of the Advisory Board mailing list are not limited to the representatives or groups mentioned on the table below, but may also be copied to other parties.

At the time of writing, Advisory Board emails are copied to Dorothea Kazazi (OSMF Administrative Assistant) and Courtney Williamson (Fundraiser).

Collective email addresses

The board on 2022-03-16 decided to allow Advisory Board members (i.e. Local Chapters, or Gold and Platinum Corporate Members) to nominate other group email addresses to also receive Advisory Board emails.

Current Members of the Advisory Board and their Affiliations

Affiliation (Company or Country/organisation)	Reason for addition	Name of representative
Esri	Platinum Corporate Member	Andrew Turner
Microsoft	Platinum Corporate Member	Kirill Fedotov
TomTom	Platinum Corporate Member	Shaundrea Kenyon
Gojek	Gold Corporate Member	Yantisa Akhadi
Grab	Gold Corporate Member	Nick Preston
Komoot	Gold Corporate Member	Christoph Lingg
Mapbox	Gold Corporate Member	Tom Lee
Meta (previously Facebook)	Gold Corporate Member	Angelina Calderon
Bolt	Silver Corporate Member	Akos Nagy
calimoto	Silver Corporate Member	Henrik Jürges
Cesium	Silver Corporate Member	Bonnie Bogle
Elastic	Silver Corporate Member	Philipp Krenn
Geofabrik	Silver Corporate Member	Frederik Ramm
GraphHopper	Silver Corporate Member	Peter Karich
HOT	Silver Corporate Member	Paul Uithol
ioki	Silver Corporate Member	Christian Bäuerlein
Mapy.cz	Silver Corporate Member	Jakub Zmrzlík
Nextbillion.ai	Silver Corporate Member	Ajay Bulusu
Niantic	Silver Corporate Member	Pending
Premise	Silver Corporate Member	David Bischof
QGIS	Silver Corporate Member	Marco Bernasocchi
Radar	Silver Corporate Member	Pending
Regrid	Silver Corporate Member	Pending
Geotab	Bronze Corporate Member	Lindy Theron
inDrive	Bronze Corporate Member	Viktor Rudoy
init innovation in traffic systems SE	Bronze Corporate Member	Andrea Mohr-Braun
Interline	Bronze Corporate Member	Drew Dara-Abrams
Kaart	Bronze Corporate Member	Pending
krick.com	Bronze Corporate Member	Klaus Mapara
NextGIS	Bronze Corporate Member	Maxim Dubinin
Omniscale	Bronze Corporate Member	Oliver Tonnhofer
OpenCage	Bronze Corporate Member	Marc Tobias
Rinkai	Bronze Corporate Member	Petr Nemecek
Stadia Maps	Bronze Corporate Member	Ian Wagner
Verso	Bronze Corporate Member	Julien Coupey
VK Maps	Bronze Corporate Member	Ignat Anikeev
YellowMap	Bronze Corporate Member	Markus Lind
[Austria] OpenStreetMap Austria	Local Chapter	pending (OSM-AT board subscribed to the Advisory Board mailing list)
[Argentina] Asociación Civil Geolibres/OpenStreetMap Argentina	Local Chapter	pending (Geolibres board subscribed to the Advisory Board mailing list)
[Belgium] OpenStreetMap Belgium	Local Chapter	pending (OSM-BE board subscribed to the Advisory Board mailing list)
[Czech republic] OpenStreetMap Česká republika z.s.	Local Chapter	Tomáš Kašpárek
[Democratic Republic of the Congo] OpenStreetMap RDC	Local Chapter	Claire Halleux (OSM-RDC board also subscribed to the Advisory Board mailing list)
[France] OpenStreetMap France	Local Chapter	Christian Quest
[Germany] OpenStreetMap Deutschland / FOSSGIS	Local Chapter	Frederik Ramm
[Iceland] OpenStreetMap á Íslandi	Local Chapter	Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
[Ireland] OpenStreetMap Ireland	Local Chapter	Dermot McNally
[Italy] OpenStreetMap Italia	Local Chapter	Stefano Sabatini
[Japan] 一般社団法人オープンストリートマップ・ファウンデーション・ ジャパン (OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan)	Local Chapter	Satoshi IIDA / 飯田 哲
[Kosovo] Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova	Local Chapter	Besfort Guri
[Oceania] OSGeo Oceania	Local Chapter	Graeme Fitzpatrick (OSGeo Oceania board subscribed to the Advisory Board mailing list)
[Poland] Stowarzyszenie OpenStreetMap Polska	Local Chapter	Andrzej Kępys
[Slovakia] Freemap Slovakia	Local Chapter	Peter Vojtek
[Switzerland] Swiss OpenStreetMap Association	Local Chapter	Patrick Stählin
[United Kingdom] OpenStreetMap United Kingdom	Local Chapter	Rob Nickerson
[United States] OpenStreetMap US	Local Chapter	Maggie Cawley & Diane Fritz