Working Group Minutes/EWG 2025-07-11
These minutes are a draft.
Formal proceedings
Attendees:
- Andrew Hain
- Adam Hoyle
- Tobias Knerr
- Roland Olbricht
- Héctor Ochoa Ortiz
Guests:
- Minh Nguyen
- Paul Norman
Minutes of previous meetings
The minutes of 02 May 2025 and 16 May 2025 have been approved.
Members of the Engineering Working Group
The Engineering Working Group accepts the motion to add Minh Nguyen as a member to it. Roland volunteers to update the wiki and give Minh access to Engineering Working Group channels.
Actual business
Vector Tiles
Paul summarizes the current status of vector tile work. The pull request that triggers the availability is ready. It just needs to be rebased to be merged. It also is waiting for coordination with the Communications Working Group.
This relase is has two layers, and Paul's work now is Shortbread styled with the Versatiles scheme.
Paul suggests that a second stage could be work on the Street Spirit style: a general purpose map style, compatible with the requirements for a style on osm.org. Color choices similar to those of osm-carto may increase the chance of acceptance.
StreetSpirit is both a vector tile scheme and a stylesheet for it, coordinated. Interactivity is in the scope of it.
Microgrants
The Engineering Working Group gets informed that the official announcement has not become online yet.
The Engineering Working Group accepts the following motion: Extend the deadline for Microgrant applications until 2025-07-31 because the official announcement has not become online yet.
GDPR
Minh was present at last month's LWG meeting. The Terms of Use have been discussed. The openstreetmap-website need a way to provide notice to older users about the Terms of Use. The addition of a setting for accepting Terms of Use to openstreetmap-website is currently under review. This would be a stepping stone for future work on even more excellent GDPR compliance in that regard.
Floss Fund
Hector volunteers to move this forward.
Next Projects to Commission / Projects Pipeline
Minh is close to sharing the roadmap that is being worked on. The discussion is paused until this roadmap is available.