Actually, i was wondering with the context of the mission statement.
(but thats fine, if thats needed to define that the US is)
OSM's job is to map it all, and list what local people call it.
Might i recommend adding a mandate to:
Maintain ensure quality with the USA community specific
Chris, great start!
My .02 on the issue of territories, protectorates, etc.issue is that
we don't need to limit the organization's mapping mandate to the US.
I'd say the goal of US OSM is the same as the goal of OSM in general,
which is to map the entire world.
One other bullet point would be
On 11/28/09 11:35 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
...
is this group to be
1) an organization of US based mappers
or
2) an organization devoted to mapping the US
i had thought it was to be 1), and would naturally tend to mostly be
about 2), but there's
no reason to write that restriction into
Hi,
Kate Chapman wrote:
I could see for example U.S. based people being interested in mapping
international locations as the humanitarian mappers do and want to
join the respective chapters of those countries.
I have organisational knowledge of two other international non-profits
with
All,
My first instinct (although it might not be the best one) is to follow
previous practice from other chapters. So I just quickly looked it up on
the wiki, leading me to the Australian chapter's draft mission statement.
It appears they do not mention country of residency as a criterion (after
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote:
Frederik,
That makes sense to me. I just wasn't sure if there were issues we had not
though about. Americans abroad for example. Would we discourage them from
becoming members of a U.S. chapter? Though I agree that those
I'd hope the mission statement of any chapter would reflect the OSMF
mission. In my judgment the key phrases to replicate are:
3.1 OpenStreetMap Foundation is dedicated to encouraging the growth,
development and distribution of free geospatial data and to providing
geospatial data for anybody to
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