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For the past weeks, the UN Mappers Team has been invited to speak to various community events. Read through our community engagements.

In February 2025, UN Mappers have adopted the #ValidationFriday campaign. The campaign is about focusing on verifying features mapped in our active projects every Friday.

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.  The gathering brought together the most active members of the European OpenStreetMap community, as well as members of the global community and representatives from agencies, NGO’s and big corporations working with OSM. The conference provided a unique platform for us to connect with fellow mappers, developers, and educators.

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 Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) and open geospatial information.

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 exercises for the course “Spatial Data Services,Sources,Standards and Infrastructures” analysed campus safety and identified vulnerabilities mapping campus streetlights, utilizing open data and GIS software.

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 that Charles was doing a lot of mapping in his hometown and asked him to share his experience.

The State of The Map, the annual, global OpenStreetMap conference, held this year in Florence, was an opportunity to present the projects carried out in recent months and the results achieved so far, but it was also a time to meet the large community of mappers and to discuss and deepen with them topics such as the educational aspect. Let's take a look at a summary of what happened during those days!

The training jointly organised by UN Mappers and Eurêka Géo from Cameroon took place from 26th March to 4th May 2021. This 12-hours online training aimed to strengthen the capabilities of the YouthMappers Chapters of Mbalmayo and Douala, Eurêka Géo students and the OpenStreetMap Cameroon community on OSM mapping using JOSM and iD Editor and data collection tools such as Kobo Collect; and to lay the foundations for a long and fruitful collaboration between Eurêka Géo and UN Mappers on future projects.