OSGeo Oceania
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!
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
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 February provided an overview of the annual coding challenge “Advent of Code“.
The second meeting of the year in March will be a workshop hosted by some of the annual Python conference organisers (PyCon AU) to assist attendees to turn tech talk ideas into an amazing proposals and presentations.
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:
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”.
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.
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 and how to link objects together for advanced public transport navigation.
This outing started at a local coffee shop, then surveyed the train station and the nearby shopping strips, before ending together for lunch.
The tasks were to add and update Points of Interest (POIs) on on your phone or a printed map.
A coffee/snack run is sponsored by OSGeo Oceania’s grants program
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, certificates were distributed to participants who actively attended training and courses, including OSM mapping activities, from January to May 2024. OSGeo Oceania was pleased to provide support through our Grant program.
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.
Source: G-SIG Timor-Leste LinkedIn
Last Saturday was an exciting day! We had youth from various universities in Dili and young professionals from government institutions join us for a session focused on QGIS training.
During the session, we explored the utilization of plugins, particularly hashtag#InaSAFE, for natural hazard scenario analysis.
As you know, hashtag#InaSAFE is free software that enables disaster managers to study realistic natural hazard impact scenarios for better planning, preparedness, and response activities.
Thank you very much for joining us in this session. We look forward to the next QGIS training and workshops session.
Many thanks to our supporter OSGeo Oceania and The Open Mapping Hub – Asia Pacific for giving us all resources and fund to make this session happen🙏🙏.
