When the open geospatial community gets together, the true power of open source comes to life. We’re thrilled to play a part in supporting these communities, and proud to share their stories.
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GeoGeeks meetup
GeoGeeks held another great evening of short talks for the Perth open geospatial community. Geo-enthusiasts Roger Merritt and Gabriel Diosan shared interesting talks on transformations and QGIS. After the talks, they chatted over pizza and drinks, provided with the support of OSGeo Oceania grants program.
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OSM social mapping
As part of GeoGeeks regular social mapping outings, they met for a coffee and an exploration of the new train station and surrounding streets in Bayswater, WA. GeoGeeks welcome everyone at these regular events, no experience is necessary. Novice attendees can learn about OSM, including how OSM relations work…
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JOSM training
G-SIG Timor-Leste conducted a JOSM training session with more than 20 participants, including young university students in Dili. The training was focused on exploring new tools for mapping with the Openstreetmap Timor-Leste community. The theme was “Missing Maps in Dili, explore with JOSM”. At the end of the training,…
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OSM training in Kiribati
The Kiribati Women in Mapping (KWIM) recently ran an OpenStreetMap training session with their members in Tarawa, Kiribati. The session focused on training young women that will lead OSM training to Betio village. OSGeo Oceania helped fund venue and transportation to make the day a success.
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QGIS training in Timor-Leste
G-SIG Timor-Leste held a QGIS training session for youth from various universities in Dili and young professionals from government institutions.
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GeoGeeks meetup
Geogeeks hosted a meetup with four fantastic talks from Nick Courts, Diego Hernández, Yukio Chaplin, River Bali, and David Galloway sharing their stories about the GIS journey, reproducible workflows, drone data processing in the cloud, and fighting bushfires with open source software.
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QGIS training in Kiribati
KWIM’s monthly training on QGIS software and awareness on open-source geospatial software to new members.
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Valenicina settlement community training
Microgrant funding covered catering and venue costs during the Household Surveying and Fire Warden training in the Valenicina settlement, organised by Mosese Sereivalu. This support enabled the community to be the first in the Lami Area to have the Fire Warden training.
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First meeting of Kiribati Women in Mapping
Microgrant funding was used to pay for catering and venue hire at the first Kiribati Women in Mapping stakeholder meeting, organised by the group founder Ueakeia Tofinga. The event was a huge success thanks to Ueakeia’s efforts and OSGeo Oceania was credited and mentioned during the event…and also in…
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