Our Mapper of the Month for September is Włodzimierz Bartczak (Cristoffs in OSM), from Poland.
Włodzimierz distinguished himself during the UN Mappers Mapping Championship held on the occasion…
Our Mapper of the Month for August 2024 is Taichi Furuhashi, MAPconcierge on OSM, professor at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan. Driven by a passion for using mapping to support and empower…
On the occasion of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, we are offering our volunteers a truly exceptional competition: the UN Mappers Mapping Championship! Test your mapping skills, map with us, and climb…
We are excited to announce the completion of our project to fix disconnected roads in Somalia, a testimonial to the dedication and hard work of the vibrant UN mapping community.
Our Mapper of the Month for July 2024 is Sami Skhab, a cartographer with extensive experience in GIS and Remote sensing from Tunisia. Passionate about using mapping for global good, Sami joined UN…
The UN Maps project (initially called Unite Maps) was born in 2019, and the following year included training activities aimed at educating or empowering OSM communities to subsequently support the…
Our Mapper of the Month for June 2024 is Angie Lorena Trujillo, an Environmental Engineer and GIS specialist from Colombia who joined our OSM validation course. Angie loves learning, participating in…
Our Mapper of the Month for May 2024 is Engelbert Steve Modo Levo, a fourth-year engineering student passionate about GIS and spatial analysis from Yaoundé, Cameroon. He has contributed to various UN…
Our Mappers of the Month for April 2024 are the extraordinary team of Chinese translators who translated our Learning Hub courses. Composed by twenty passionate members with different backgrounds,…
Our Mapper of the Month for March 2024 is Pawan Muddu, from India. With a background in Geography, Pawan has made notable contributions to UN Mapper projects and demonstrated dedication to enhancing…
To learn more about the interest in potentially training and joining a UN Mappers Validation Group, and more broadly about the validation practices of the global OSM community, the UN Maps…
Introducing our February 2024 Mapper of the Month: Rajendran Keerthana from Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. Fresh off completing her Geography Bachelor's Degree at Eastern University, Keerthana has a keen…
Introducing Justo Gómez Vaello, from Spain, our Mapper of the Month for January 2024. Justo, a Geomatics and Surveying Engineer, has showcased exceptional mapping skills and active participation…
Meet Sakshi Verma, our December 2023 Mapper of the month. Sakshi was a standout student from the course we held with the Radhanath Sikdar Institute of Geospatial
Science & Technology (…
The State of the Map Europe 2023 conference, organized by the collaborative efforts of the OpenStreetMap Belgium community and TomTom took place from November 10th to 12th in Antwerp, Belgium. …
Meet Raquel Dezidério Souto, our November 2023 Mapper of the Month. Raquel is a passionate advocate for Free and Open Software, President of IVIDES.org, and a Ph.D. in Geography from Brazil.…
Introducing our October 2023 Mapper of the Month: Gloria Del Puerto! Hailing from Paraguay, Gloria is an accomplished environmental engineer with a passion for GIS (Geographic Information Systems)…
Meet our September 2023 Mapper of the month: Eduard Reñe Cherto! Currently living in Kenya, Eduard brings a dynamic blend of skills as a Building Engineer with a heart for volunteer humanitarian…
Our Mapper of the month for August 2023 is Nnadozie Uzoma Onyeukwu. He is nigerian geospatial intelligence analyst with expertise in GIS, currently based in Germany.
The recently concluded GEOdaysIT conference that was held from June 12th to June 17th at the Politecnico di Bari and the University of Bari showcased the potential of Free and Open Source…
From June 7th to June 9th 2023, we organized a three-day mapathon aimed at mapping disconnected roads from the main network in Eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo), as a challenge in…
Our Mapper of the Month of July is Pedro André Faria, based in Portugal.
Pedro distinguished himself during the MapRoulette challenge held from June 7th to June 9th, emerging as the winner. His…
On 30 May, UNGSC Brindisi marked the 75th anniversary of Peacekeeping.
João Pedro de Andrade Eduardo, from Brazil, is our mapper of the month of June 2023.
João is a geographer with a master’s degree from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. He has distinguished…
Our mapper of the month of May 2023 is Sango Bishiri Narcisse, based in Chad he lives in N'Djamena. He has distinguished himself during the global training that was conducted in French.
He mostly…
A group of students enrolled in the Erasmus Mundus Master’s program in Geospatial Technologies at the University of Jaume I (UJI) in Castellón de la Plana, Spain, as part of their final class…
Located in the heart of Yaounde, Cameroon, is the ENSTP (National Advanced School of Public Works). This school provides training for engineers in different fields such as Civil Engineering,…
The United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC) is at the forefront of adopting state-of-the-art geospatial technology to address UN operational needs. UN Maps was established in 2019 to support the…
Ingrid Reine Fotso Tuedjo is our mapper of the month for April 2023. Ingrid is a student in surveying and topography at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Travaux Publics in Yaoundé. She is…
The Second United Nations Maps Conference took place at the United Nations Information and Communications Technology facility (UNICTF) in Valencia, Spain, between 6 and 10 March 2023. It brought…
Our mappers of the month for March are Said Turksever and the entire OSM Türkiye community, for the invaluable coordination and mapping work done in the aftermath of the earthquake that hit Syria and…
Sajeevini Sivajothy is our Mapper of the month for February 2023. Sajeevini is a Geography student, passionate about GIS, at the Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Batticaloa, who contacted us a few…
Charles Donkor is one of the trainees who actively participated in our recent "OSM and Humanitarian Mapping" training. During the evaluation of the homework required by the training, we discovered…
Ronald Ernesto Ontiveros Capurata, Ronald Ontiveros in OSM, is our mapper of the month for January. Ronald, a researcher in remote sensing and GIS based in Mexico, recently participated in the UN…
Lodz, Poland. On November 30, members of the OSM Polska Association, together with students of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of the University of Lodz and supporters of the OpenStreetMap (OSM…
Last month, the UN Mappers team carried out a series of activities in the Valencian Community, Spain, with the dual purpose of raising awareness of the UN Maps universe and training participants in…