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State of The Map Tanzania: The power of Mapping
The State of The Map Tanzania conference was hosted by Crowd2Map in collaboration with Ramani Hurai, on the 8th to 10th of December 2017,...
Zola Manyungwa, University of Malawi
Feb 13, 2018


Welcoming our 100th YouthMappers Chapter: The Nature Club of Karatina University
YouthMappers welcomes its 100th chapter in 100 weeks, Karatina University in Nyeri County, Kenya. Karatina University’s School of Natural...
YouthMappers Staff
Feb 8, 2018


Introducing the YouthMappers Resource Library - we need Regional Editors and Translators!
We are very proud to introduce the YouthMappers Resource Library! This new platform for chapters is the culmination for months of work by...
YouthMappers Staff
Feb 6, 2018


UNICEF school mapping using the OpenStreetMap Platform
Information poverty is an ongoing research topic at UNICEF, which aims to estimate an average Kilobyte of information a child would...
Olatubosun Adebayo, Ahmadu Bello University
Feb 5, 2018
Remote Sensing Now Used for Landslide Mapping
Remote Sensing is now used for landslide mapping. Traditionally, a field survey would be conducted to assess and map landslide. However,...
Devonee Shearer, West Virginia University
Jan 29, 2018


My Passion for GIS and LionMapperTeam-Enugu Campus
It is a privilege to be a member of LionMappersTeam-Enugu Campus because it is a platform where I can contribute to a global mapping...
Chukwu Kingsley Chika, University of Nigeria Enugu
Jan 23, 2018


The Smart Campus Project
Jovenes Mapeadores, the YouthMappers chapter of the University of Panama, took on the initiative to implement the Smart Campus project...
Genesis Tuñón, Jovenes Mapeadores
Jan 19, 2018
Mapping for Better Preparedness and Flood Resilience
In a world where you can make phone calls from your watch and donate rice to the hungry by knowing vocabulary words, it's easier than...
Mike Mann, The George Washington University
Jan 12, 2018


Using Open Data to Study Voting Efficiency
During GIS Week 2017, I proudly presented my group’s poster focused on gerrymandering for an applied GIS course. Gerrymandering is when...
Andy Avila, George Mason University
Jan 10, 2018


YouthMappers reaching out to untapped potential in Western Uganda
Uganda has one of the biggest numbers of YouthMappers chapters per country. A majority of these are located in Eastern Uganda (Busia,...
Ssebaggala Douglas, Klein Micheal, Musundi Hillary
Dec 22, 2017


Why should we let girls map?
In actual sense, the world has realized the danger of relegating women and the girl child, so I for one appreciate this chapter,...
Joy Ifeanyi, University of Nigeria - Enugu Campus
Dec 13, 2017


SOTM-US 2017: A conference to remember
The State of the Map US conference which was held in Boulder, Colorado, was the 7th of its kind with very many people coming in from...
Ingrid Martha Kintu, Makerere University
Dec 12, 2017


Ever Changing Urban Maps and Environment
Introduction Over the past twenty years the world has seen an explosion of computing technology that is influencing the daily aspects of...
Matthew Conant, Texas Tech University
Dec 11, 2017


Geographers Encounter Challenges in Fieldwork - GWU senior fieldwork at Mason Neck
A couple weeks ago, the geography department at the George Washington University organized the annual fieldwork trip to Mason Neck State...
Jiajing Zhang , The George Washington University
Dec 7, 2017


The future of GPS and its potential affect on society
Global Positioning Systems, or GPS technology, as we know it is still in its infancy. Even though we have GPS systems in our smart phones...
Sage Laxton, Texas Tech University
Dec 5, 2017


Mapping in Rochester - a collaboration between Monroe Community College and SUNY Geneseo
This past Thursday (Nov 16), over 25 spirited students and faculty gathered at the beautiful, new Downtown Campus at Monroe Community...
Wayne Howard, Monroe Community College
Dec 1, 2017


Gathering of Young Minds Under the Rooftop of YouthMappers
Ensuring the quality of public health is the right of every citizen. This motivation can create a bridge to integrate mapping with public...
Maliha Binte Mohiuddin, University of Dhaka
Nov 30, 2017


UCC celebrates OSM GeoWeek and 1 year with YouthMappers
UCC had a successful Geoweek celebration! On November 13, we had a staff-students consultative meeting with all the students reading...
James Kweku Eshun, University of Cape Coast
Nov 28, 2017


YouthMappers organize for #osmgeoweek
Throughout the month of November, YouthMappers chapters hosted events and recruited new volunteer mappers to participate in various...
Marcela Zeballos, YouthMappers
Nov 27, 2017


Special moments experienced at SOTM Asia
State of the Map Asia is an annual gathering of the mappers, GIS experts, mapping related organizations, national and international donor...
Md. Manjurul Islam, Dhaka College
Nov 27, 2017
