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Our Mapper of the Month for September 2025 is Gilles Noye (OSM username: gnoye). He is our top validator for the UN Mappers x FAO Agricultural Waterways Mapping in Southern Mauritania Projects - he validated 1,395 tasks (or 41% of the all projects) covering more than 8,000 km² of project area.

Our Mapper of the Month for August 2025 is Arnold Nkwabong from Cameroon. Arnold is part of the OSM ENSTP community and has been a UN Mapper since 2022. He is our top contributor for the UN Mappers x FAO Agricultural Waterways Mapping in Southern Mauritania Project 2 - he mapped around 440km of waterways and 105 km² of farmland areas.

Our Mapper of the Month for July 2025 is the EUthMappers! From April to June 2025, UN Mappers collaborated with EUthMappers to bring open mapping in secondary schools in Europe.

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.

Our Mapper of the Month for May 2025 is Nicolas Bounet. Nicolas is a GIS enthusiast, and history and geography highschool teacher from France. Since 2023, he has collaborated with the UN Mappers Team to provide three-day online training sessions with the Theophile Gautier Highschool in Tarbes, France. The latest training was in March 2025 and participated by 30 students*, with the supervision of Nicolas.

We have partnered with EUthmappers, a project funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and supported by Politecnico di Milano, Italy, to advance the goal to enhance Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) knowledge in secondary schools in Europe by training teachers and students on collaborative geospatial information.

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.

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 of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, emerging as the winner for the quality and quantity of his contributions. His mapping skills were also showcased in 2022 when he was awarded as Mapper of the Month. Włodzimierz is a highly active member of the community.