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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GeoCart2026
Greg Lauer attended GeoCart in Wellington. He said it was “Great to see many presentations talking about Open Source and/or Open Data”, and “Karl (LINZ) gave out great kudos for North Road’s work on their QGIS plugin.”
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GTAQ Conference
The Geography Teachers Association of Queensland recently held their annual conference at the end of July, so we thought it would be great to have a presence there. We enticed the attendees with some of the great merch from previous FOSS4G conferences and a selection of cartographic books. Ian,…
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Emerging Spatial Professionals New Zealand
The Emerging Spatial Professionals New Zealand organised a Geospatial Careers Evening at University of Auckland bringing together students, recent graduates, and industry seniors to discuss insights into the New Zealand geospatial industry. Funding for the event was provided by OSGeo Oceania. You can learn more about the group here.
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GEOSS Tasmania Humanitarian Mapathon
The Geospatial and Surveying Society Tasmania aka GEOSS Tas hosted a free night of mapping and pizza. Extending on the GEOSS Humanitarian Mapathon event in 2025, the activity for this year was a weekly mapping session for the first month of the semester, where students participated in ongoing humanitarian…
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Maptime Auckland
The recent kickoff Maptime Auckland meetup was a success with 15 people ranging from geospatial professionals to students coming together to discuss geospatial topics and share ideas with each other over free pizza!
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Geogeeks Perth
Geogeeks has been going strong with Hacknights and Mapping Parties every month. The Hacknight in March 2026 was held at the usual venue, the Riff (Spacecubed) in the CBD, and well attended. You can access the Geogeeks calendar to keep updated here: https://geogeeks.org/geogeeks.ics The Geogeeks website is here: https://geogeeks.org
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Canberra Python User Group
The first meeting of the Canberra Python User Group was sponsored by a microgrant from OSGeo Oceania, providing refreshments and making the event more pleasant for everyone involved. The microgrant will cover at least 2 meetings of the group. The presenter at the first meeting of the year in…
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QGIS Foundation
OSGeo Oceania renewed sponsorship of the QGIS Foundation at the “Small Member” level, an €500 annual contribution. This is the second year that OSGeo Oceania has continued this sponsorship. The QGIS Foundation uses membership funds for:
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Geospatial and Surveying Society of Tasmania (GEOSS Tasmania)
OSGeo Oceania supported the Geospatial and Surveying Society of Tasmania (GEOSS Tasmania) Humanitarian Mapathon. Sponsorship provided refreshments and funded prizes for attendees for things like “Highest km of roads mapped” and “Most buildings mapped”.
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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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