mapperofthemonth

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 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.

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.

Our Mapper of the Month for October 2025 is Rubi Shrestha from Nepal. Rubi started mapping in late 2023 and is part of the Nepal Geomatics Engineering Society (NGES) and Kathmandu University (KU) YouthMappers community. She is our top contributor for the UN Mappers x FAO Agricultural Waterways Mapping in Southern Mauritania Project 4 - she completed 204 tasks covering 1,168 km2 area, and mapped 323 km of waterways.

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.