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Baremaps

20 Mar 2024

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20 Dec 2023

Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for
creating, publishing, and operating online maps.

Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Getting the code and documentation website in compliance with Apache
 standards.
 2. Growing the community
 3. Making releases

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

 We acknowledge that we need to make progress on community building and will
 try to focus on this aspect in 2024.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 We had a few external contributions to the project, but no new committer
 joined the community. Most notably, Joe Polastre, from FlightAware, the
 world's largest flight tracking and data platform, created a fast tile
 exporter for Baremaps written in Go [1]. Some of his ideas have already
 been contributed back to the project. We also started interesting
 discussions with the Apache SIS community regarding spatial data codecs [2].

 [1] https://github.com/flightaware/baremaps-exporter

 [2] https://github.com/apache/incubator-baremaps/discussions/805

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 - We addressed many of the podling requirements for the latest release.
 - We also added support for PMTiles, 3D building extrusion, and
 minutely/hourly/daily diffs from OpenStreetMap.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?

 Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [ ] Initial setup
 - [ ] Working towards first release
 - [X] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 2023-11-20

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 2023-08-31

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, the mentors' advice has been very helpful, especially in addressing
 issues that appeared during the last release.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

 Yes

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
    Comments:
 - [X] (baremaps) Julian Hyde
    Comments:  Podling is going well. The discussions with SIS are
    encouraging.
 - [ ] (baremaps) Calvin Kirs
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

20 Sep 2023

Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for
creating, publishing, and operating online maps.

Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Getting the code and documentation website in compliance with Apache
    standards
 2. Growing the community
 3. Making releases

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

 No

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 We have had several new commiters join the project. We are also seeing
 new activity from people asking questions and creating issues.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 - We addressed most of the podling website requirements and updated the
   content and layout of the website
 - We implemented new features and fixed numerous issues.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?

 Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [X] Initial setup
 - [X] Working towards first release
 - [X] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 2023-04-04

 We are working on a new release (the vote for the first release candidate
 failed).

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 2023-08-31

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, the mentors' advice has been very helpful especially to comply to
 Apache licensing issues and guidelines.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

 Yes

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
    Comments:
 - [X] (baremaps) Julian Hyde
    Comments:  Community seems to be growing and evolving well
      (judging by commit activity, new committers, moderate dev
      list activity, bugs being logged). I would like to hear
      more about Baremaps' efforts to grow community (e.g. talks
      at meetups, online demos) and will ask them for an update
      next reporting cycle.
 - [X] (baremaps) Calvin Kirs
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

21 Jun 2023

Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for
creating, publishing, and operating online maps.

Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Getting the code in compliance with Apache standards
 2. Making releases
 3. Growing the community

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

 Someone submitted our website to HackerNews and we remained on the
 frontpage for about 16 hours [1]. Our demonstration server hosted on
 Hetzner (16 cores; 128GB of RAM; 8TB of NVMe SSD) successfully sustained
 this load and served more than 40GB of tiles from Postgis during this
 period of time [2]. Additionally, the OpenStreetMap Wiki now offers the
 possibility to display vector maps based on Baremaps on its pages [3].
This
 raises the following question: Could the demonstration server be hosted by
 the ASF at some point?

 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36106695

 [2] https://demo.baremaps.com/#14/46.5197/6.6323

 [3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Vector_map

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 The activity has increased. Five people made their first contribution to
 the code base since the last report, one of whom has been elected as a
 committer in May. The activity on the mailing list is very low, but the
 number of exchanges on GitHub increased.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 We significantly improved the basemap at low zoom levels
 We improved the layout and the content of the web site
 We continued to address licensing issues
 We attended the OGC/OSGeo/ASF code sprint and improve support for OGC API
 We fixed bugs and addressed issues

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
 Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [X] Initial setup
 - [X] Working towards first release
 - [ ] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 2023-04-04

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 Leonard Cseres was elected as a committer in May.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, the mentors have been very helpful on several topics (community
 building, licensing, etc.). The discussions with Martin Desruisseaux at
the
 OGC/OSGeo/ASF code sprint greatly helped at identifying avenues to address
 our licensing issues.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

 Yes

### Signed-off-by:

 - [ ] (baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
    Comments:
 - [X] (baremaps) Julian Hyde
    Comments:  Congratulations on the HN coverage and traffic.
      (Back in the day, getting Slashdotted was a rite of passage.)
      I'd say this puts you in the 'community building' phase.
      Regarding hosting, let's discuss on dev,
      with the aim of creating an INFRA case if necessary.
 - [X] (baremaps) Calvin Kirs
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

22 Mar 2023

Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for
creating, publishing, and operating online maps.

Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Getting the code in compliance with Apache standards
 2. Making releases
 3. Growing the community

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

 No

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 The activity has been low in December and January, but the community has
 stayed steady.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 - We addressed most of the critical licensing issues and identified minor
 issues with license of the data used in the tests
 - We improved the layout and the content of the web site
 - We launched a vote for a first release candidate with a DISCLAIMER-WIP
 file
 - Some of us will attend the OGC/OSGeo/ASF code sprint with the intent to
 work on Baremaps

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
 Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [X] Initial setup
 - [X] Working towards first release
 - [ ] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 When the project entered incubation.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, the mentors have been very helpful on several topics (community
 building, licensing, etc.)

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

 Yes

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
    Comments:
 - [X] (baremaps) Julian Hyde
    Comments:  Reviewing the first release candidate now, and quality
      looks good for a podling's first RC. Development has been rather
      narrow (in a few individuals), so I'm hoping to see broadening
      of community participation around the first release.
 - [X] (baremaps) Calvin Kirs
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

18 Jan 2023

Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for
creating, publishing, and operating online maps.

Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Getting the code in compliance with Apache standards
  2. Making releases
  3. Growing the community

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

 No

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 The community has stayed steady.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 - We progressed on some critical licensing issues and made upstream
 contributions to Proj4J
 - We improved the web site
 - We made small steps toward a first release
 - We experimented with support for the 3D tiles next format

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
 Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [X] Initial setup
 - [X] Working towards first release
 - [ ] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 When the project entered incubation.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 Yes, the mentors have been very helpful on several topics (community
 building, licensing, etc.)

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

 Yes

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
    Comments:
 - [X] (baremaps) Julian Hyde
    Comments: Baremaps is progressing well.
 - [X] (baremaps) Calvin Kirs
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

21 Dec 2022

Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for
creating, publishing, and operating online maps.

Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

1. Getting the code in compliance with Apache standards
  2. Making releases
3. Growing the community

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
* No

### How has the community developed since the last report?

* The community has been steady

### How has the project developed since the last report?
* With the help of the mentor, we progressed on some critical licensing
issues (i.e. Proj4J and EPSG dataset)
* We published a first version of the web site
* We drafted the release process
* We improved the base map

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

- [ ] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

* N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

* When the project entered incubation

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.

* Mentors have been attentive

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

* We are working to get the project name approved.
   * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TM-144

### Signed-off-by:

- [ ] (baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz
 Comments:
- [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
 Comments:
- [X] (baremaps) Julian Hyde
 Comments: Good momentum.
 Lots of detailed effort going into the first release.
 I was involved in the EPSG issue, and it's great to see a
 project at this stage taking licensing issues seriously.
- [X] (baremaps) Calvin Kirs
 Comments:  The community is actively preparing for the first release.
- [ ] (baremaps) George Percivall
 Comments:
- [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
 Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

16 Nov 2022

Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for
creating, publishing, and operating online maps.

Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

 1. Learning the apache way, getting the code in compliance with Apache
 standards
 2. Making our first release
 3. Growing the community

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

 * N/A

### How has the community developed since the last report?

 * This is our first report.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

 * This is our first report.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
 Please feel free to add your own commentary.

 - [X] Initial setup
 - [ ] Working towards first release
 - [ ] Community building
 - [ ] Nearing graduation
 - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 * N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

 * 2022-10-14, when the project was accepted into the incubator.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

 * The mentors have been super helpful.
 * The meeting with mentors, committers and stakeholders was an excellent
 way to kick off the project.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  * we are in progress

### Signed-off-by:

 - [X] (baremaps) Bertrand Delacretaz
    Comments: All looks good so far, great energy and collaboration!
 - [X] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
    Comments:
 - [X] (baremaps) Julian Hyde
    Comments: Project has gotten off to a great start.
      Good positive energy on the dev list. The kickoff
      meeting was fun, with good attendance by mentors
      and initial committers.
 - [X] (baremaps) Calvin Kirs
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) George Percivall
    Comments:
 - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
    Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: