OpenStreetMap
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.
Other OSM-related profiles and pages:
OSM-related affiliations:
- OSM Foundation regular member since December 2016
- Member of the Local Chapters and Communities Working Group (LCCWG) since September 2019
- Member of the Board of Directors starting December 2020 with term ending in December 2022
- Former part-time mapper as a member of Kaart’s local model team in the Philippines from July to November 2020.
Aside from my diary entries, I have also blogged about OSM on my personal/tech blog: https://vaes9.com/categories/osm
Latest Diaries
I recently finished this mini-project where I implemented the classic 15 puzzle game but using the standard OpenStreetMap tiles as the sliding piec...
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...
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 ...
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...