Map-py Wednesday

About

An online, casual meet-up of OpenStreetMap contributors in Asia, usually from participants in the OpenStreetMap@Asia Telegram channel, or other local community channel, but anyone is welcome, regardless of their mapping experience.

The sessions are held every third Wednesday of the month, where participants chat and share about OpenStreetMap, maps, and geodata. Every event is intended to be fun, light, and informative.

The sessions are usually in English, but there maybe participants who speak some regional language (Bahasa Indonesia, Binisaya, Filipino, and Urdu) who can assist with translations during the activity, if necessary.

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Resources

The regular meeting room is hosted in OSMF's BigBlueButton instance: https://osmvideo.cloud68.co/user/win-oqa-pyq-78g.

Whenever possible, the sessions' recordings are made available through an externally-hosted PeerTube channel: https://tube.tchncs.de/c/mappy_wednesday/videos

Past Sessions

Session	Snap-py Talks, Speaker	Video	Wefie
2025
June	Vespucci OSM editor User's OSM contributions for 2025 (so far)
May	"Address and Street name Grids in Manila" by Dan Jacobson "Bandung Public Transportation, Simulation and Route Validation" by Andi Muhlis	PeerTube	Two people looking at the camera, with a laptop screen showing the month's Map-py Wednesday session room participants
April	"Better-osm-org script for power mappers" by Vince Panes	PeerTube	Screenshot of the on-going meeting taken during the 2025-April Map-py Wednesday session.
March	"OSM and Climage Change" by Uzair Ahmad
February	"Setting-up JOSM for Copernicus Sentinel-2 Tiles" by Win Olario Talkshow: Uzair Ahmad and the nascent OSM community in Pakistan.	PeerTube	Group photo of some participants from the 2025-February Map-py Wednesday online session.
January	"Community Field Mapping Using QGIS" by Bell Kismawrdani "5 Tips to Boost Community Participation" - @Madina TLM "Emulating Geomob interviews for Asia?" - @Supaplex	PeerTube	Group photo of some participants of the Map-py Wednesday online session from January 2025.
2024
December	"OsmAPP, the universal awesome app" by Win Olario
November	"Universitas Negeri Jakarta YouthMappers' contributions to Open Data" by Yabes Butar Butar "OSM Quality Assurance Tools" by Husni Falah	PeerTube
October	• "Tracking your (geotagged) video on a map" by Andi Muhlis • "Bike tour across the Philippines with OSM" by Tim Gut	PeerTube
September	• "Map-making using Field Papers with students from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia", by @bmardyan • "Different usage of path and living street access in Indonesia" by Bell Kismawrdani
August	• "Bus Route Mapping in Pakistan" • "A walk-through of the SCEE (StreetComplete for Experienced Editors) app", by Rally de Leon	PeerTube
July	• "Bees and Maps", by Maning Sambale • "App walk-through for OSM Go!", by Vince Panes	PeerTube
June	• "Tagging Narrow Highways", by Rally de Leon • "Community Updates from Pakistan", by Uzair Ahmad
May	• "Challenges of mapping in a small town" by Bell Kismawrdani • "RapID editor + MapWithAI" by Husni Falah	PeerTube
April	• "2024 Hualien Earthquake and Response from Taiwan Local Community", by Dennis Raylin Chen • "Using OSM with remote sending devices" by Uzair Ahmad • "Creating OSM survey routes with gpx.studio" by Andi Muhlis • "Mapping spatial local knowledge with Pen & Paper" by Win Olario	PeerTube
March	• "Overpass Turbo Query by Example" by Timmy Gut • "Embracing the OSM Universe" by Kiran Ahire • "Mapping Tactile Paving & Bus Stops in Bandung" by UPI-YMC representative
February	• "Using Strava for Improving Imagery Alignment" by Rally de Leon • "The Open Mapping Guru Network" by Mikko Tamura
January	• "Tips and tricks: Aerial Imagery & OSM editing" by Vince Panes • "Map-py together with Simple Task Manager" by Win Olario
2023
December	• "Collecting GoPro Max imagery for Mapillary" by Andi Muhlis • "Public Transport Data in Kuala Lumpur" by Nabil Ersyad

spin off

• Main: Talk Show Proposal

We have a weekly WeeklyOSM period, and Podcast series GeoMob by OpenCage. But the latter one is more tend to Western interviewees due to its locaation. Maybe we can have Asia and Pacific focus media, interviewing key figures in the area, indroducing the projects they are involved and focused on.