Moral report 2021-2022
Nantes 11 June 2022
Institutional relations
The year 2021-2022 was the occasion for OSM France to be integrated into the plenary council ofthe CNIG (National Council for Geolocated Information). The activity of the CNIG is growing
following the appointment of its new president last year.
This entry of the association is excellent news. It recognises the work of the entire community in theservice of the OSM project and it officially marks the importance of the project in the geographic
information landscape.
The association is part of several working groups.
This official recognition allows the association, and more generally its members, toto be involved in the work of the CNIG, to make the voice of our project and its particularities :heard governance, model, vision, …
After several years of discussion about the opportunity to do so, the association has decided to tojoin Afigéo. The Board felt that this year was the right time, especially with the subsequent entry
into the CNIG that followed. It remains to be seen how the two structures will progress and whatplace OSM can have, as the groupings between Afigéo and the CNIG are numerous, particularly at
the the working groups level.

Geocommons: The next step
Launched in June 2021, the geocommons are still under construction.
A forum https://forum.geocommuns.fr/ is online since mid-February 2022.
This forum is intended to be a space for discussion between all interested parties withoutdistinction.
We wanted the Geocommons session at State of the Map France 2022 be a significant moment on
the subjects of free street photos, navigable databases and geocommons! Will this be enough? We’llsee!

The life of the OpenStreetMap community
The community is growing: we are currently on a plateau of 400 contributors/day.
Institutional media coverage, like Recourir et contribuer aux communs numériques - Mission
logiciels libres et communs numériques.
A servers burndown following a TV show about OpenStreetMap and the war in Ukraine?
Forum activity that is growing?
Is all this a marker of the life of the community? good question!
But it’s hard to illustrate the « life » of the community, it’s only the tip of the lognette of what wesee, is based on the possibility of doing things without asking permission.

Not asking permission does not mean not respecting some obligations! And as anillustration of the life of the community, the example of the attention paid to the respect of theattribution OpenStreetMap, by OpenStreetMap contributors! Since 2021, it is for example, thecollaborative referencing of more than 200 sites with attribution errors, of which 61 have beencorrected. But it is still more than 100 sites without attribution (a deliberate violation tag was evenbeen set up following the absence of progress and several reminders). Learn more and comecontribute Issues · osm-fr/attributions · GitHub

The life of the OSM-fr association
OSM-fr, is the choice to have a certain institutional, legal and administrative legibility which allows
us to have a contact address@ (if people want to participate in answering it, do not hesitate to), It
also means carrying out projects for the community.
For example, this State of the Map France, but it is also all the more or less known services (umap,osmose, BANO, the technical layers topo, bano, …, aerial imageries, the forum, differents render :fr, humanitarian, cyclosm, …) !
And it is especially all that we will make of this association!
And this is the subject we want to discuss at this GA. It starts with the observation that the lack ofrenewal in the association’s Board of Directors. It is the same people that we see every year, samefaces every year. Today, we would like to discuss the lack of candidates on one hand, and, on theother hand, the actions to encourage this renewal. To sum up, what can make you come to the Boardand fire us?