1.  
OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan
President Hiroshi MIURA (miurah)

2.  2007
o OSM became a popular topics
 2008
o OSM Japan community was born (03/09)
• Start OSMJ site, http://www.openstreetmap.jp/
• Start Japanese OSM ML: Talk-ja
• Introduced in some web media
• This news was talked in some Japanese ML, like OSGeo.JP
o Our first Mapping Party
• At Sugamo with Mr. Tim Waters (04/12)
• Kamakura Mapping Party (05/24)

3.  2008
o Start importing public data by MLIT
• National Land Numerical Information
• Lakes
• Railways
o Start attending “Open Source Conference (OSC)”
• Nagoya (08/09)
• Shimane (09/12)
• Tokyo Fall (10/03,04)
o Mapnik can render Japanese
 2009
o Japanizing of osm.org

4.  2010
o Start importing public data
• Forests
• Rivers
• Administrative borders
o Discus about trade mark of “OSM” in Japan
o Establish OSMF Japan(12/30)

5.  2011
o Mr. and Mrs. Coast came to Japan(03/04)
o the Grate East Japan Earthquake(3/11)
• Starting of sinsai.info
o Import road data from Yahoo!JAPAN/ALPS map
• Yahoo!Japan provide ALPS map data
o Potlatch2 is localized

8.  Local communities
o OpenStreetMap TOKAI
o OpenStreetMap KANSAI
o OpenStreetMap FUKUSHIMA
o OpenStreetMap YOKOHAMA
 Some areas are mapping by a few mappers
o Hannou city
o Hiroshima
o Tokushima

13.  Exhibited to opensource events anywhere by OSM Japan
community
o Community, but it is just a activity by volunteers
o Who will receive the trademark of OpenStreetMap?
 Therefore, we decided establishment of
OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan!

14.  Objectives
o Cooperation of some other organization
o Protection of intellectual property
 Organizations
o 5 groups
• Planning
• Global communication
• Technical
• Support communities
• sinsai.info
• SotM
o +Directors, office

15.  
Thank you