Robert Whittaker has been involved with with OpenStreetMap since signing up as a volunteer mapper in December 2008. He particularly likes mapping countryside features and rights of way, along with high street shops and street furniture. He has written a number of data comparison tools to help flag missing or outdated features to mappers, which are available at https://osm.mathmos.net/ . He was one of the founding directors of OpenStreetMap UK, but left the Board soon after because of other commitments. He was re-elected as a Director in September 2023. In his day job, Robert works as Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of East Anglia. He also has a more general interest in Open Data and government transparency.