My January 2021 in OSM

• Mapping
  • Continued to keep mapping every day. I don’t have any more details. I can’t remember exactly. I either did buildings in Ireland with JOSM, or I went outside for a walk and used StreetComplete
• Tagging
  • Suggested we come up with a tagging scheme for informed consent for trans HRT (but I need to do more than a tweet 😅)
• Missing Maps asked me to give a presentation one of their montly meetings for validators about the OSMF, what it did, and a little about “Diversity” in OSM(F)
• OSMF Board
  • & HOT
    • OSMF+HOT Boards The OSMF Board met with the HOT Board (online obviously), and we had a chat about what we could do together, and the recent trademark issues, like “hOSM”/“humanitarian OpenStreetMap” & a proper trademark grant for them
    • I continued to work on a trademark grant with HOT to grant them a right to use the trademarked term “OpenStreetMap” in their name.
      • I had a 1 hour call with a HOT Board member and we made a lot of progress using the existing Local Chapters Agreement Template to draft
      • The draft was circulated to the OSMF’s clever OSMF Licensing Working Group (LWG) for advice. We’re going to ask outside legal counsel too
  • Jan meeting
    • ping OSMUK reminder
  • Screen2Screen planning
    • The OSMF wants to have a weekend long meeting (what used to be called a face-to-face meeting now must be a screen-to-screen).
    • I (as Secretary) organised the dates, and getting Allen Gunn of Aspireation Tech to once again help facilitate.
  • Local Chapters
    • FOSSGIS, the local chapter for Germany, asked to change to new Local Chapter Agreement. I need to do some paperwork on that.
    • OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan application
      • Had to review background & documentation & remind the OSMF Board to review
    • MapUganda application for Uganda
      • This application has been going on for a bit. I contacted them to introduce myself and to summarize what I thought were the issues, to help them address that.
    • Freemap Slovakia application for Slovakia
      • Reviewed docs & emailed contacts to tell them probably OK
    • Stowarzyszenia OpenStreetMap Polska application for Poland
      • Contacted them to to tell them possible local consultion.
  • FOSS Policy
    • Inspired by a mailing list post, I filed ticket to move welcomemat to Gitlab. In true OSM do-ocracy fashion, the correct response was “Good idea, do you want to do it?” 😆
  • OSMF Advisory Board
    • The Board would like to talk to to the AB again, so I started organising that for a February meet & email AB & Board@
• Communication Working Group
  • OSM Promotional Material Programme
    • Posted a conference sticker page to Nigeria. They request just before the Coronavirus pandemic hit Germany, and DHL stopped posting things. Sorry for the delay!
• Social Media
  • en.osm.town, the Mastodon/Fediverse instance I founded & run, was recommended by the OSMF’s FOSS Policy Committee
  • Talked the State of the Map Organizing Committee about using a crossposter to get their birdsite account auto-posted to the Fediverse/Mastodon at @sotm@en.osm.town. I am hopeful.
  • Likewise, the OSMF Communication Working Group (CWG) is looking at this for the OpenStreetMap birdsite account
• OSM Ireland
  • OpenStreetMap Ireland would like to make something to help with the Map All the Buildings in Ireland project. We had a call to brainstorm. I won’t have time to contribute seriously.

Previously: 2020: Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.