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MapYourGrid: Mission statement

Open data for power grids planning and maintenance is crucial to achieve energy transition and energy access, particularly in low and medium income countries. MapYourGrid consortium states its different missions as follow:

  • Empower local communities to map their power infrastructure on the OpenStreetMap project with training and tools.
  • Reuse, develop and ensure sustainable access to open data about power grids in as many countries as possible, particularly low and medium income countries, through action, education and mediation towards local communities
  • Improve or create tools in accordance with OpenStreetMap community guidelines to encourage people to contribute, assess quality and curate existing data to be successfully reused for power planning
  • Provide a reliable and versatile worldwide identification system for key components of power infrastructure as to ensure interoperability between as many software as possible
  • Contribute to OpenStreetMap ontology for power grids to ensure consistent growth between data and modeling
  • Produce relevant insights including benefits and risks, gather them in data focused tools about public data and state of the grids and promote them

Code of conduct

As to ensure upside missions are lead by good will and volunteers people, consortium members are tied by following principles that form our code of conduct:

  • Advocate and publish open data with suitable licences (See Open Knowledge Foundation definition). Clear choice should be made priori doing anything significant and among following licenses: ODbL licence 1.0 or CC BY with their explicit agreement to be used for OpenStreetMap contribution.
  • Advocate and publish free and open software with suitable licences (See Free Software Foundation definition or Open Source Initiative Definition). Clear choice should be made priori doing anything significant and among following licenses: MIT, AGLv3 or GPLv3 and CC BY for documentation and mostly documentation material.
  • Collaborate and promote interaction with the OpenStreetMap community. Each member acts in favour to involve mappers or light their contribution. It includes mapping and documentation, training or participation in events and conferences.
  • Pay respect to data licences, particularly ODbL licence when it comes to contribute or conflate with OpenStreetMap data. Always observe verifiability principle, local regulations and other good practices.

Members also share the following values: * Comply to OpenStreetMap code of conduct and MapYourGrid good practices for mapping. * Cooperate: don’t overpass community in decision making regarding digital commons (including OpenStreetMap) * Sharing: Publish any resource that deserve to be shared without conflict with business model * Integrity: sincerity, loyalty, honesty and professionalism