OPENSTREETMAP UNITED KINGDOM COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Name

OPENSTREETMAP UNITED KINGDOM COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Legal name

OpenStreetMap United Kingdom Community Interest Company

Website

https://osmuk.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Short description

OpenStreetMap United Kingdom Community Interest Company is a non-profit CIC representing volunteer OpenStreetMap mappers across the UK, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands, funded by individual (£5/year) and corporate (£50–£500/year) memberships and operating as the official Local Chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Solihull

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Corporate Membership Fees: Annual corporate membership fees: £50/year for SMEs and non-profits, £500/year for organisations with annual turnover exceeding £5 million. Corporate members receive website listing, OSMUK logo usage, regular updates, and opportunities to shape organizational direction.
2. Individual Membership Fees: Individual member subscriptions at £5 per annum, providing participation rights in governance and community activities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

OpenStreetMap United Kingdom CIC is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company that serves as the official UK Local Chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. The organization represents all OpenStreetMap mappers in the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and Channel Islands, supporting the open mapping community through individual and corporate membership programmes, community projects (such as Team up to Map and Addressing addresses), educational resources, and advocacy for open geographic data with minimal legal or technical restrictions.

Product overview

OpenStreetMap UK CIC is a community interest company that represents and supports OpenStreetMap mappers in the United Kingdom. Rather than offering commercial software products, the organization provides community programs, governance structures, and advocacy services. Core offerings include community projects (Team up to Map, Addressing addresses), educational resources (getting started guides, video tutorials), quarterly mapping projects, and annual gatherings. The company facilitates engagement between the OSM community and organizations while maintaining radical openness through Loomio-based governance discussions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Individual Membership Subscription programme for individuals to support and participate in the OpenStreetMap UK community at £5 per annum, providing voting rights in governance and community participation.
• Corporate Membership Tiered annual subscription programme for organisations supporting OpenStreetMap UK at £50/year for SMEs and non-profits and £500/year for organisations with annual turnover exceeding £5 million. Benefits include website listing, OSMUK logo usage, regular updates, and opportunities to shape organisational direction.

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017OSMUK became a Local Chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation in 2017. The agreement grants OSMUK a seat on the OSMF Advisory Board, representing the UK OpenStreetMap community and the interests of the map itself.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Mapbox: Commercial mapping platform built substantially on OSM data, providing APIs, SDKs, and enterprise tools. Comparable as a commercial open-data mapping provider competing for the same OSM-using enterprise customers.
• Geofabrik (OpenStreetMap data services): Commercial provider of OSM data extracts, hosting, and consulting; directly comparable as a specialist commercial enabler of the OSM ecosystem that OSMUK community members also work with.
• Mapillary (Meta): Street-level imagery platform that integrates with and contributes to OSM; comparable as a crowdsourced/open geospatial data contributor with stronger commercial backing and tooling than OSMUK.

Broad incumbents

• Ordnance Survey: UK's national mapping agency and dominant commercial provider of UK geographic data. Comparable as the broad incumbent OSMUK implicitly positions against, offering licensed mapping products across the same territory.
• TomTom: Commercial digital mapping and location technology company; employs OSMUK director CJ Malone as a software engineer. Comparable as a broad incumbent in the UK/EU mapping market that also consumes OSM-derived data.

Direct peers

• Missing Maps Project: Red Cross/American Red Cross-led humanitarian mapping initiative built on OSM; directly comparable as a community mapping non-profit that mobilises volunteers to fill gaps in OSM data for vulnerable regions.
• Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT): Non-profit that applies OSM to humanitarian and development use cases; thinkWhere (an OSMUK corporate member) developed HOT's Tasking Manager v3. Operates with similar volunteer/corporate model but international/mission-driven scope.
• OpenStreetMap Foundation: The global non-profit that stewards OpenStreetMap; OSMUK is its UK Local Chapter. Highly comparable as a membership-supported open-data foundation, but at global rather than national scope.

Others

• Wikimedia Foundation: Non-profit that stewards Wikipedia and other open-knowledge projects. Comparable governance/membership/community model with OSMUK, though focused on encyclopedic rather than geographic open data.
• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC): International standards body for geospatial interoperability. Comparable as a membership-based non-profit that sets standards and convenes the geospatial community, similar to OSMUK's OSMF Advisory Board role for the UK.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/osmuk

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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