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The UN Maps Community Ambassadors will support mapping and community outreach activities of UN Maps. They will lead and coordinate local community engagement through capacity building and training opportunities. Through this pilot, we hope to gain insights on how we can strengthen a community-owned and sustainable open data, and to explore the feasibility of establishing local UN Mappers chapters and/or communities.

You mapped and we are grateful! Here we are sharing our yearly statistics and milestones with the UN Mappers community for 2025:

From 1 to 4 December 2025, UNGSC, in collaboration with OICT and the UN Geospatial Network, organized the UN Maps Clinic sessions “Enhancing UN Maps – from the field, for the field”, remotely. Participated by more than 350 UN personnel from 67 UN entities, the UN Maps Clinics provided a series of interactive and hands-on sessions that showcased updates of UN Maps features and applications, demonstrated outputs, and gathered feedback for future enhancement. It co-designed the roadmap of UN Maps to better plan the future steps to deliver coordinated support for UN’s daily operational activities.

We are excited to announce the release of the new UN Street Map. This version features a redesigned visual style aimed at improving readability, usability, and visual harmony across all platforms.

Building upon the success and  best practices of other open mapping communities, we are exploring to set up a UN Mappers Ambassadors and Chapter initiative to expand the community and establish a community-owned data production and  sustainability.

The United Nations Global Service Centre’s (UNGSC) UN Maps Programme is pleased to announce the release of the UN Maps Mobile Application (App) version 2.0!

On 30 May, UNGSC Brindisi marked the 75th anniversary of Peacekeeping.

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 mandates of UN peacekeeping missions and Agencies, Funds and Programmes based on a suite of geospatial solutions and by leveraging both UN-managed and open data sources.

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 together around 45 entities and external partners to strengthen coordination, collaboration and the capacity of geospatial information to meet global challenges.