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Surveys initiated by the OSMF board or one of the Working Groups.

When Initiated by Subject / Initial call Survey text Participants Related to Community/membership discussions Results/output(file/wikipage/blogpost) Languages Run period Privacy policy linked
2022 Nov 04 OSMF board Sent via email. Copy of questions in English OSM Foundation members Introduction of membership prerequisites. Background linked from the survey. Community.osm.org: How are days of mapping counted? 7
Arabic, English, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swahili
2 weeks No
2021 Jul 03 Local Chapters and Communities Working Group (LCCWG) Internal survey/not public Local Chapter representatives. One answer per Local Chapter. Local Chapters' views on paid work Results not published yet Results not published yet English No deadline set
2021 Jan 16 OSMF board Blog post - includes links to active survey in different languages (translations of post available) Copy of questions in English (~ 1.35 MB) Community
  • 2020 OSMF board decisions
  • Controversial topics
  • Demographic questions (optional)
talk@ mailing list

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Survey Results 18
Arabic, Chinese (Traditional; Taiwan), English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish (Sorani), Persian (machine translation), Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese The questions were written in English and translated to other languages.
~ 1 month (to 2021-02-14)
2020 Mar 05 Local Chapters and Communities Working Group (LCCWG) Local Chapter and communities survey to get views why they applied/will apply to become a chapter Copy of questions Local Chapters and local groups - one response from each Local Chapter or community group. Why become/be a Local Chapter English to 2020-04-11
2020 Jan OSMF chairperson SWOT Analysis--action requested Community Upcoming face-to-face 2020 board meeting

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OSM wiki page English
2019 Aug OSMF board Survey on global and local communities in OpenStreetMap Community State of the Map 2019 Local Chapter Congress talk@ thread

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Blogpost: Pre-SotM2019 survey – initial numbers and reflections from board members (analysis of answers to some of the questions) 12
Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Persian, (Brazilian) Portuguese, Spanish # The questions were written in English and translated to other languages.
2 weeks
2019 Aug OSMF board Working Groups survey Working Groups (WGs) Working Groups - Board relationship. Action Item from face-to-face 2019 board meeting. English
2019 May OSMF board OSMF Board face-to face meeting: Suggest the topics and issues that matter to you Community Upcoming face-to-face 2019 board meeting osmf-talk@ thread

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Blogpost: Surveying OpenStreetMap English
2018 Mar State of the Map Working Group Community survey for the State of the Map 2018 program Community State of the Map 2018 program State of the Map 2018 program English
2017 Apr State of the Map Working Group Community survey for the State of the Map 2017 program Community State of the Map 2017 program State of the Map 2017 program English
2017 Sep/Oct Data Working Group (DWG) DWG survey on organised editing Community Organised Editing Guidelines, developed after the survey and replacing the Proposed Directed Editing Policy osmf-talk@ thread

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OSMF page, Spreadsheet / .pdf English
2016 Jun State of the Map Working Group Community survey for the State of the Map program Community State of the Map 2016 program State of the Map 2016 program English