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OpenStreetMap was founded in the UK in 2004 by Steve Coast, and taken up by a community of map enthusiasts who wanted a free and open source of data. It has since grown to more than 1 million contributors around the world: individual volunteers, map enthusiast, GIS and geography data specialists, companies that use map data, humanitarian organizations, government agencies and more.

OpenStreetMap embarqued in 2008 for the transformation from a hobbyist project to a sustainble non-government organization. One important step has been completed in 2012: the data had before been licensed jointly by many many individuals under CC-BY-SA 2.0. Now it is licensed under the (Open Database License 1.0)[https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence] by the (OpenStreetMap Foundation)[https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page], abbreviated OSMF, that has been founded (for this very pupose)[https://blog.openstreetmap.org/about/].