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Our Mapper of the Month for June 2026 is James Owornte from Nigeria. James is one of our new validation candidates and is our top validator for the Ceel Gadde roads project validating 52 tasks or almost 30% of the project. He is also one of our top mappers for the previous months, adding 35 km of roads.

Our Mapper of the Month for May 2026 is Nitya Kapoor from India. Nitya supported the communications and promotion of UN Mappers mapathon with FOSS Club - Delhi Technical Campus. She is also one of the top mappers for the India flood mapping projects.

Our UN Maps Community Ambassadors, Lucy Kago, together with UN Mappers Kenya and Young Lawyers Voice on Climate Change Foundation (YLVOCCF), led the activity "Nairobi Draining Map and Clean" using KoboCollect and ChatMap. They held training and cleaning activity, mapping 110 drainage points.

Los embajadores comunitarios de UN Maps prestarán apoyo a las actividades de cartografía y de acercamiento a la comunidad de UN Maps. Dirigirán y coordinarán la participación de las comunidades locales mediante iniciativas de desarrollo de capacidades y oportunidades de capacitación. A través de este proyecto piloto, esperamos obtener información sobre cómo podemos fortalecer un sistema de datos abiertos sostenible y gestionado por la comunidad, así como explorar la viabilidad de establecer secciones locales de UN Mappers y/o comunidades.

Our Mapper of the Month for April 2026 is Maria Maily from Scotland. She is one of our new validation candidates and is our top validator for the Ceel Gadde roads and waterways projects. She validated 85 tasks or 37% of both projects.

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.

Our Mappers of the Month for December 2025 are the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) Master's students! Since 2022, UJI has been collaborating with the UN Mappers Team to provide OpenStreetMap, open data and open-source tools, and UN Maps training with Erasmus+ Master's students.

Our Mapper of the Month for November 2025 is L Kennedy Vaiphei from India. Kennedy began mapping with UN Mappers in late 2024 and is currently pursuing M.Sc. in Applied Geography and Geoinformatics at the Central University of Karnataka. He is our top contributor for the UN Mappers x FAO Agricultural Waterways Mapping in Southern Mauritania Project 3 - he mapped around 573km of waterways and 140km² of farmland areas.