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Working Group Minutes/EWG 2026-03-06

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These minutes are a draft.

Formal proceedings

Attendees:

  • Andrew Hain
  • Adam Hoyle
  • Tobias Knerr
  • Mikel Maron
  • Minh Nguyễn
  • Héctor Ochoa Ortiz
  • Emerson Rocha

Guests:

  • Jake Low

Apologies:

  • Roland Olbricht

Membership application by Jake Low

Jake Low has been approved as a new member of the Engineering Working Group (EWG).

Actual business

ID tagging schema project initiative

Mateusz' proposal pull request has been merged. The EWG will base the cointract on the existing contract template (where is it?).

Vector tiles

Adam is now meeting with Paul every two weeks for updates on Vector tiles work.

Current focus: logging, shortbread schema, guides.

iD Development

Some internal-only discussion. No motions considered.

Bing Imagery

Brief update by Mikel: Stil in motion, nothing urgent.

HOT is also potentially affected by this general issue and there have been some conversations with HOT members about it.

Any other business

State of the Map

The EWG discusses whether it should submit a talk proposal and about what topic.

GPS tracks work

The contractor has started work on GPS track management yesterday. The intended goal is:

  • Sustainability and scalability of this feature
  • improved privacy, in particular wrt the GDPR
  • a feature refresh

OGC standards dicussions

The EWG takes notice of the discussion around a proposal to make something an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standard that is considered by parts of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) community to give the Overture Foundation an undue lever of control:

The OpenStreetMap Foundation as a whole has commented it. Some comments have also been made by OSM community members.

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