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Crowdsourcing Environmental Justice - How Mappers are Making a Difference
As YouthMappers we all have a few things in common: we love to make maps and possess the continuous desire to promote human welfare...
Jack Brunson, University of Oregon
Sep 24, 2018


UP RI YouthMappers Chapter Launched
“We don’t just build maps, we build mappers.” This statement echoed the empowering vision of the University of the Philippines (UP)...
UP RI YouthMappers
Sep 17, 2018


Attending the 2018 State of the Map
The feeling was unparalleled, and it still is. Receiving an email notification that I had been awarded a scholarship to attend the 2018...
Laura Mugeha, University Agriculture & Technology
Aug 10, 2018


The Role of Geospatial Data in Research and Policy Development: Sharing our Experience as YouthMappe
Everything, absolutely everything, is location based. Nothing on our planet exists without possessing spatial attributes. Whether it is a...
Ebenezer Kofi Baidoo and Lauretta Nyarko
Aug 8, 2018


Let’s Map: OSM Training 2018
With a vision to make the first year students aware of OpenStreetMap and knowing its growing use, Geomatics Engineering Students’...
Aman K.C., Institute Engineering Pashchimanchal
Aug 3, 2018


The Beauty of Girls Empowerment
First and foremost, there is a revolutionary step towards making women matter in society which is aimed at making the old dogma regarding...
Chidinma Anne Johnson, University of Nigeria Enugu
Jul 31, 2018


Sharing the lessons of the National NGO Programme on Humanitarian Leadership with the University of
“Sharing the activities of YouthMappers with others is not only the mantra of learning, but also allowing others the ability to visualize...
Maliha Binte Mohiuddin, 2017 Leadership Fellow
Jul 27, 2018


Training held to Revamp University of Liberia YouthMappera Chapter
The University of Liberia YouthMappers (ULYMS) chapter held its first training session on July 3, 2018 as a way of re-introducing...
Christian Weah, University of Liberia
Jul 23, 2018
Telling our story - the YouthMappers Research Fellowship Symposium
To see the YouthMappers Research Fellowship Story Map in your web browser, click here. Dennis Aibuedefe Irorere is a student in the...
Dennis Aibuedefe Irorere, Federal University Akure
Jul 17, 2018


Mapping a bridge across the Atlantic Ocean - How Two University Students Hope to Implement a Sister
The process of globalization has affected all aspects of public life. With the spread of the internet and global trade, access to data...
Sonia Torres and Stella W. Nakacwa
Jul 13, 2018


UniqueMappersTeam Collaboration with Transparent Earth Nigeria Ltd.
This guest blog originally appeared on the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team blog on 11 June 2018. On the 23rd May 2018, the...
Valerie Odeam Osuamkpe and Victor Sunday
Jul 9, 2018


Reflections on the 2018 YouthMappers Research Fellowship Symposium
Hi! My name is Adele Birkenes, and I am a rising junior and a Geography major at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. This summer, I am...
Adele Birkenes, Vassar College
Jun 28, 2018


Girls in Mapping
My name is Rubaina Chalpang Adam, a 3rd year Geomatic Engineering student of the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) in Ghana....
Rubaina Chalpang Adam, UMaT
Jun 26, 2018


Attending the 2018 YouthMappers Research Fellowship Workshop
From 3rd to 15th of June 2018, the selected student-mentor teams from different parts of the world, of which I was part, convened in the...
Ingrid Martha Kintu, Makerere University
Jun 22, 2018


The benefits of being a YouthMapper
My name is Chris Eshun, I am a third-year student at the University of Mines and Technology, I study Bsc Geomatic Engineering. I had...
Chris Eshun, University of Mines and Technology
Jun 20, 2018
Community knowledge and ground-level information for identifying diverse, discursive, and scale-vari
“Who are the poor? Where are they? They have a face. They have a very specific, in some cases, even location. And we tend to deal with...
Gabriela Zdrazilova, University of Victoria
May 22, 2018


MCC Mapping Corps hosts a #mapathon at Thomas High School!
On Wednesday, March 14, 2018, Monroe Community College (MCC) Mapping Corps held the first mapathon for Webster Thomas High School's...
Khem Kardariya, Monroe Community College
May 10, 2018


Use of OpenStreetMap and InaSAFE for assessing wildfire risk to high-value assets
We often hear OpenStreetMap labeled as a “Wikipedia of maps” with more than three million contributors. The most common features mapped...
Bishrant Adhikari, University of Wyoming
May 8, 2018


Using GIS to help a the Shiremanstown Home-school Group
Approximately 1.7 percent of school age students in Pennsylvania are home-schooled. In a recent hearing about the Pennsylvania...
Joseph Burke, California University at Penn.
May 3, 2018


Tigers Vs. Gamecocks: A Map Battle for the Ages
For the first time in YouthMappers History, Clemson and University of South Carolina faced off in a Map Battle to see which school could...
Ellie Davis, University of South Carolina
Apr 30, 2018