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The UN Mapper of the Month - October 2026

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The UN Mapper of the Month - October 2026
Our Mapper of the Month for October is Jacob Bray. Jacob is a social services professional from Canada, and one of our top contributors on the UNOWAS project who generated about 32km of roads that will be used for peacekeeping operations. We asked Jacob how he found out about UN Mappers, his motivations and experience in open mapping/OpenStreetMap and being part of the global community of mappers.

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The UN Mapper of the Month - August 2026

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Myanmar OpenStreetMap (myOSM) initiative

Our Mappers of the Month for August 2026 is the Myanmar OpenStreetMap (myOSM) initiative! MyOSM community helped translate the OpenStreetMap educational materials on the UN Maps Learning Hub into Burmese.

We interviewed myOSM about their experience and motivation in ensuring accessibility of open mapping resources to support UN peacekeeping efforts as well as humanitarian preparedness, emergency response, and community resilience across Myanmar. Read below:

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The UN Mapper of the Month - June 2026

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James Owornte MotM June 2026
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.

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The UN Mapper of the Month - November 2025

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The UN Mapper of the Month - November 2025
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.

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The UN Mapper of the Month - October 2025

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The UN Mapper of the Month - October 2025
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.

The UN Mapper of the Month - September 2025

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The UN Mapper of the Month - September 2025
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.

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