These are some ideas I have about how to improve the map and all its related apparatus.

They're all pre-proposal and I usually tinker with the wording a lot over time, since I treat this as a doodle pad before posting the final draft elsewhere.

Thoughts in response are very welcome at any stage of gestation!

Migration to the EU: Irish company limited by guarantee

See User:Eteb3/ideas/Irish_CLG

UK Companies Act changes 2023

see User:Eteb3/ideas/ECCTA23

Governance of OSM Foundation

Some snippets of what I see as the most relevant law/articles

Articles

17. A person shall cease to be a member or an associate member (as the case may be) if:

(1) they die or cease to exist;

(2) they withdraw their membership (or associate membership) by giving the Foundation 7 days' notice in writing;

(3) their membership account is more than one year in arrears;

(4) the board resolves to expel them, subject to any successful appeal being made under these articles.

Except that a person shall not cease to be a member of the Foundation if they are the last remaining member.

18. The board may only resolve to expel a person as member or associate member if, in the board's reasonable opinion, that person's conduct interferes or is likely to interfere with the Foundation achieving one or more of its objects.

Companies Act 2006

Members (Part 8)

112(2) The members of a company

Every ... person who

[1] agrees to become a member of a company, and

[2] whose name is entered in its register of members,

is a member of the company.

121 Removal of entries relating to former members

An entry relating to a former member of the company may be removed from the register after the expiration of ten years from the date on which he ceased to be a member.

125 Power of court to rectify register

(1) If a company’s register of members—

(a) does not include information that it is required to include, or

(b) includes information that it is not required to include,

the person aggrieved, or any member of the company, or the company, may apply to the court for rectification of the register.]

Summary of other provisions: ten-year time limit, court has wide discretion to resolve the impasse.

Resolutions and meetings (Part 13)

Chapter 1: General provisions about resolutions

281 A resolution of the members must be passed—

(a) as a written resolution in accordance with Chapter 2, or

(b) at a meeting of the members (to which the provisions of Chapter 3 apply)

Chapter 3: Resolutions at a meeting

301 A resolution of the members of a company is validly passed at a general meeting if—

(a) notice of the meeting and of the resolution is given, and

(b) the meeting is held and conducted,

in accordance with the provisions of

this Chapter 3 and,

the company's articles.

Calling meetings

302 Directors can call a general meeting at any time

303 Members representing 5% of the voting rights can require the directors to call a meeting

307 (1) A general meeting ... (other than an adjourned meeting) must be called by notice of at least 14 days.

Notices of meetings

308 Notice of a general meeting of a company must be given—

(a) in hard copy, or

(b) in electronic form, or

(c) by means of a website (see section 309),

or partly by one such means and partly by another.

309 Notice of meeting on website

(2) When the company notifies a member of the presence of the notice on the website the notification must—

(a) state that it concerns a notice of a company meeting,

(b) specify the place, date and time of the meeting, and

(c) in the case of a public company, state whether the meeting will be an annual general meeting.

(3) The notice must be available on the website throughout the period beginning with the date of that notification and ending with the conclusion of the meeting.

310 (1) Notice of a general meeting of a company must be sent to— (a) every member of the company, and (b) every director... but this is subject to the articles.

311 (1) Notice of a general meeting must state (a) the time and date of the meeting, and (b) the place of the meeting.

(2) It must also state the general nature of the business to be dealt with at the meeting... but this is subject to the articles.

312 Resolution requiring special notice

(1) Where by any provision of the Companies Acts special notice is required of a resolution, the resolution is not effective unless notice of the intention to move it has been given to the company at least 28 days before the meeting at which it is moved.

(2) The company must, where practicable, give its members notice of any such resolution in the same manner and at the same time as it gives notice of the meeting.

(3) Where that is not practicable, the company must give its members notice at least 14 days before the meeting—

(a)by advertisement in a newspaper having an appropriate circulation, or

(b)in any other manner allowed by the company's articles.

(4) If, after notice of the intention to move such a resolution has been given to the company, a meeting is called for a date 28 days or less after the notice has been given, the notice is deemed to have been properly given, though not given within the time required.

325 Notice of meeting must contain statement of rights to appoint a proxy

(1) In every notice calling a meeting of a company there must appear, with reasonable prominence, a statement informing the member of— (a) his rights under section 324, and (b) any more extensive rights conferred by the company's articles to appoint more than one proxy.

(2) Failure to comply with this section does not affect the validity of the meeting or of anything done at the meeting.

(3) If this section is not complied with as respects any meeting, an offence is committed by every officer of the company who is in default.

(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

333 The electronic address used to send notice of the meeting is valid for members to give documents or information about the meeting, subject to anything to the contrary stated in the notice. "Electronic address" has a wide meaning.

360 Notice periods are calculated according to the 'clear day rule': the day of the notice and the day of the event are not counted.

Circulation of statements by members=

314 Members representing 5% of the total, acting together, may require the company to circulate a statement of not more than 1,000 words to the other members.

The meeting

319 A member may be elected to be the chair of a general meeting by a resolution of the company passed at the meeting. This is subject to any provision of the company's articles that states who may or may not be chairman.

320 The chair's decision on a show of hands is final, unless a poll is demanded.

321 The right to demand a poll is subject to the company's articles, but cannot be completely excluded (criteria are given).

[Generally: the poll may be taken at the meeting, but need not be.]

324 Any member may appoint a proxy to vote on their behalf. The proxy must vote as instructed.

(325-331 give further details on proxies)

Mosque vs musalla (2024-08-05)

I've started a discussion elsewhere on the wiki about place_of_worship=musalla.

Survey of use

See TagInfo and Overpass

Malaysia: many cases

Surau Nurul Iman 447954032 447954032 Streetview (Note minaret.)
Surau Amanputra 625105296 625105296 Streetview
Surau Hamidiya 1046569148 1046569148 Streetview
Surau Al-Ikhlas 918723085 918723085 Streetview

Indonesia: many cases

Musholla Sunan Bonang 328500343 328500343 Streetview (note change of tag from mosque to musalla)
Musholla 332359553 332359553 Streetview

North Africa: 10 cases

Algeria (7)

Mosquée Sidi Lahcen مسجد سيدي لحسن 519772264 519772264 aerial (translation: "Sidi Hasan Mosque")
Salle de prière 4621932398 4621932398 aerial (translation: "Prayer room")
مصلى الزاوية 4707330691 4707330691 aerial (translation: "Musalla of the Zawiyah" - al-Zawiyah could be a building, or could be the area of the city)
مصلى 4798542121 4798542121 aerial (translation: "musalla")
مصلى 4925185639 4925185639 aerial (translation: "musalla")
مصلى الشيخ محمد بن يحي 4750384621 4750384621 aerial (translation: "Musalla of Shaykh Muhammad bin Yuhiy"; called a "mosque" on Google, but that may be their AI?)
مصلى بلال بن رباح 4754502723 4754502723 aerial (translation: "Musalla of Bilal bin Rubbah")

Libya (3)

مصلى أبي هريرة لتحفيظ القرآن الكريم 4430642297 4430642297 aerial (translation: "Abu Huraira Quran Memorisation Musalla"; has dome)
مصلى 4754956624 4754956624 aerial (translation: "musalla"; in Benghazi Zoo)
مصلى 4915326521 4915326521 aerial (translation: "musalla"; semi-rural settlement: could be the main mosque?)

Iran: 6 cases

مصلی بزرگ ملایر 533139523 533139523 aerial view (note dome; Google photo shows imam leading; connected to cemetery?)
Imam Khomeni Musallah 909964475 909964475 aerial view
مصلی دورود 5699401357 5699401357 aerial view (note dome & minarets)
سکوی نماز 1228312585 1228312585 aerial view (translation: "prayer platform"; tagged as 'roof'; in cemetery)
مصلی نمازجمعه خانیمن 680453539 680453539 aerial view (translation: "Friday-Prayer Musalla of Our Lady")
سکوی نماز پارک پرستار 680453539 680453539 aerial view ("prayer platform" in a park)

al-Shām / the Levant: 4 cases

مصلى الفتح 4327064190 4327064190 aerial (not much info here; translation, "Musalla al-Fath")
مصلى للعبادة 4738202721 4738202721 aerial (translation: "musalla for prayer")
Masjid Ahl Al-Sham 2674478759 2674478759 aerial (tent in refugee camp; translation: "People of the Levant Mosque")
مصلى الهندسة 4426701292 4426701292 (within engineering faculty of Birzeit University; translation: "engineering musalla")

al-Jazīra / Arabian peninsula: 5 cases

Prayer Area Al Manjour Trail (Bottom) 10678171213 10678171213 aerial (remote area, no building visible)
Prayer Area Al Manjour Trail (Top) 10678170412 10678170412 (same comment)
Female Prayer Room 3828727108 3828727108 (in university)
Male Prayer Room 3828727111 3828727111 (in university)
Prayer room 10252453560 10252453560 (in airport)

Europe: 2 cases

UK: Leeds University Islamic Society 517328320 517328320 Streetview
France: "Mosque" in Paris 7284891202 7284891202 StreetView

Americas: 1 case

USA: Milpitas 8262966505 8262966505 Streetview Facebook page

Sun-based access times (2019-11-16)

For coding opening times of Muslim places of worship

The idea develops Talk:Key:opening_hours#Sunrise_.2F_Sunset, including comments on Dusk/Dawn.

There are ~5 cases of Muslim prayer times being used in opening times, and hopefully many more as the map grows - Muslims are ~25% of the global population. (It's probably reasonable to suppose that there would be greater use with a documented tag.) Any system developed may have wider applicability.

Background

Muslim prayer times are determined by the sun: dawn, midday, late afternoon, sunset, nightfall. Things are complicated by different definitions of dawn, late afternoon and nightfall among different schools of thought.

Current practice

There are only a handful of cases, but the practice seems to be to simply list out the times (by their Arabic names, with various transliterations) and rely on a user's local knowledge to interpret these into clock-time. E.g., service_times=fajr;zhuhr;asr;maghrib. For practising Muslims this is completely intuitive, and is probably completely adequate in most cases. (It was my tagging practice too, until I was told that it is not consistent with the tagging syntax/policy.)

Need

For anyone trying to code the opening/service times of Muslim places of worship my guess is that the current practice will become de facto. So standardising the approach (particularly spellings) will be useful.

But in the UK (where I'm based) the variety of Muslim practice means the same term can mean slightly different things in mosques just across the street from each other. It would be useful to provide further tags for this.

And, the current practice can't be machine-parsed to give clock-time.

Proposals

1. Standardise the sun-time values

Adopt the spelling below, which uses the US Library of Congress transliteration, simplified to pure alphabetic:

fajr; zhuhr; asr; maghrib; isha

Rationale: I think it is unrealistic to use English terms, as there is no real English equivalent for most of them. Further, English terms are never used among Muslim speakers of British English (unless self-consciously interpreting the religion to outsiders): the Arabic terms effectively are English words in Muslim contexts (as indeed "Ramadan" is for Brits generally). AFAIK the same applies across other languages except in the Turkic regions.

Of the six current instances of the Arabic terms in the map, three are by contributors with manifestly excellent English, apparently native or bilingual Anglophones.

So granted Arabic, the spelling needs to be consistent.

2. Define new tags to specify sun-time values further

We should consider additional options to further specify the sun-times:

Definitions vary for asr ("late afternoon"). I suggest attributes of asr=1 and asr=2 for the two definitions in use. (This is effectively the practice of the Nautical Almanac Office, a government agency in the UK.)
Definitions also vary for fajr and isha. I suggest attributes with a value of any integer degree of sun's elevation - especially -18; -12; -6 (for dawn/dusk at astronomical/nautical/civil twilight).

Example tag: fajr=-18 => Fajr is at beginning of astronomical twilight in the morning.

3. Accept before/after

Accept (e.g.) fajr - 01:00, by analogy with the existing usage sunset + 01:00. This would be useful for mosques that open, say, 1 hour before dawn prayer is called.

Alternative proposal

We could adopt a universal (not Muslim-specific) system, using values for sun's elevation instead of the Arabic terms.

Perhaps *=sun-18AM could indicate the beginning of astronomical twilight in the morning, and *=sun-18PM could indicate beginning of astronomical twilight the following evening.
Or service_times:solar=-18AM
Or service_times:solar=astronomical_dawn

At the moment I feel this is less suitable:

It would be unlikely to win much take-up among Muslims who know the 'Arabic sun times' system, as it is too far from their natural language and everyday life.
Even with the variation in definitions, the Arabic terms are good enough as a first-base solution. We should standardise those first, and also offer tags allowing further specification - if needed, or to enable machine-parsing.
A universal 'sun's elevation' system will require more technical knowledge (of astronomy and of religio-legal principles) than the vast majority of Muslim mappers are likely to have.

Current usage (Nov 2019)

Mosque name	Country	OSM datalink	Attributes
Mosquée de Fribourg	CH	6435763658 6435763658	service_times=Open from Fajr to Isha
Kodikuthmala Juma Masjid, Kerala	India	5525280949 5525280949	service_times=Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha'a, Jumua'a
Kattungachira Juma Masjid, Kerala	India	5611204497 5611204497	service_times=Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Ishaa, Jumuaa
Mosquée Annajat	Morocco	306013485 306013485	service_times=Fajr, Dohr, Assr, Maghreb, Ishae
Masjid Rahmat Kampung (F) Lembah Klau	Malaysia	6760852682 6760852682	service_times=Subuh, Zohor, Asar, Maghrib, & Isya
Surau Amanputra	Malaysia	625105296 625105296	service_times=Subuh to Isya'

Tag:barrier=boom DRAFT

NOTE this is a draft hosted on Eteb3's userpage. Please consult Eteb3/eteb3 before editing.

barrier = boom

Description

A chain or cable across a body of water, preventing passage to watercraft or debris. Usually supported by a line of floats or buoys.

Group: barriers

Used on these elements

Useful combination

=*
=*
=*

On water

A boom is a chain or cable across a body of water, which prevents watercraft, debris or other unwanted objects from passing. It is usually on the surface of the water, supported by floats or buoys.

Booms have several common uses:

Use	Description	Map link
To prevent boats passing down a channel.	Passage blocked to watercraft at the approach to Knottingly weir, West Yorkshire, UK.	maplink
To interdict an area of open water or to restrict it for certain users.	Roped swimming area at the Beach Rotana Hotel in Abu Dhabi, UAE.	maplink
To stop trash and debris.	Debris catcher upstream of Queen Elizabeth Bridge, Belfast, Northern Ireland.	maplink
To stop invasive species such as water hyacinth.	Weed control boom by the aquatic boom company Elastec (of Carmi, IL, USA). Location unknown.	n/a

Temporary booms are used to prevent the spread of oil spills: they are less likely to be relevant to mappers.

How to map

Draw a way along the barrier location and tag it barrier=boom.

This tag may be used on open ways and on closed ways. See the wiki page on barriers for general information on how to map barrier features.

Tags in combination

In addition to barrier=boom, it is helpful to add the OpenSeaMap tag seamark:obstruction:category=boom so that OpenSeaMap renderers can interpret it correctly.

A boom can be assumed to be floating unless submerged. If submerged, you could also add the depth range values (if you know them). This is very useful for navigators.

minimum_depth=*
maximum_depth=*

Minimum and maximum refer to situations where the water is tidal or changes in depth for other reasons. If the depth does not change, the creator of this page suggests giving the same value for each tag, to help with machine parsing.

Alternative or duplicate tags

The tag waterway=floating_barrier has been used around 105 times (at 2020-09-29). The higher number of uses probably doesn't represent greater consensus: the tag occurs only in western Europe, and the vast majority (~85%) are by a single user in the UK.

The tag is likely to be questioned by mappers who would like waterway=* to be reserved for real ways along which water flows (rivers, streams, etc), rather than including features associated with water generally.

Nonetheless, as the alternative tags each use a different key, there is no reason why one feature cannot have both, in addition to the OpenSeaMap tag.

On a highway, etc.

In some dialects a lifting road barrier is called a boom barrier, boom gate, or lifting boom (Wikipedia).

Consider using the more usual barrier=lift_gate for this feature. Around 300,000 nodes have this tag at 2020-09-27, compared with 12 nodes tagged barrier=boom.

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