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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. Reviewing the changes made to make the code and documentation website
compliant 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 believe that most of the issues related to licensing have now been
addressed. The next step is to remove the DISCLAIMER-WIP in future releases.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
No new committer joined the project, but a few issues, documentation
improvements, and pull requests were submitted by external contributors.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We released a new version of Baremaps and the process went relatively
smoothly. A nice collaborative effort also started to implement a
GeoParquet reader and to support OvertureMaps files.
### 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:
2024-04-27
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2023-08-31
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes
### 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:
- [X] (baremaps) Calvin Kirs
Comments:
- [ ] (baremaps) George Percivall
Comments:
- [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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. Reviewing the changes made to make the code and documentation website
compliant 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 underestimated the effort required to make the project compliant with
Apache guidelines.
In particular, some datasets used in the code (EPSG) and in the tests
(OpenStreetMap, NaturalEarth, Ripe, etc.) were causing licensing issues.
We hope that closing these issues will help us increase the release
frequency and focus on growing the community.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
No new committer joined the project.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We have now been able to remove all the licensed datasets with synthetic
ones, and we should be able to remove the disclaimer-wip soon.
We improved the style and the tileset of the basemap.
We introduced a new workflow for the daylight map distribution (Microsoft
and Google Building Footprints, Facebook Experimental ML Roads, etc.)[1,2].
We added support for the PMTiles format.
[1] https://daylightmap.org/
[2] https://daylight.baremaps.com/
### 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:
2023-08-31
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
When we joined the incubator.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, the mentors' advice has been helpful, especially in removing the
problematic datasets.
### 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:
- [X] (baremaps) Calvin Kirs
Comments: Good to see the team is making progress on License-related
work.
- [ ] (baremaps) George Percivall
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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: