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seav

Mapper since:
July 28, 2007
Last map edit:
July 09, 2025

Mapping geek and open knowledge and data advocate based in Metro Manila, Philippines.

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Aside from my diary entries, I have also blogged about OSM on my personal/tech blog: https://vaes9.com/categories/osm

Latest Diaries

OSM 15 Puzzle

I recently finished this mini-project where I implemented the classic 15 puzzle game but using the standard OpenStreetMap tiles as the sliding piec...

2 comments October 12, 2024

A Call to Correct Narratives about Geospatial Work in the Philippines

Last September 1, Amazon Web Services (AWS) released an episode of their documentary series Now Go Build which highlighted the work done by the H...

0 comments September 04, 2020

Wikidata+OSM at State of the Map 2019 and WikidataCon 2019

I’ve been a Wikimedian since 2002 and an OSM mapper since 2007. While there are certainly a lot of differences between the two projects, I believe ...

4 comments December 15, 2019

Typhoon Haiyan, five years after

Today, November 8, is the fifth anniversary of Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Typhoon Yolanda, making landfall in the Philippines. This devastati...

0 comments November 08, 2018