The YouthMappers UFRJ chapter (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and the Virtual Institute for Sustainable Development (IVIDES.org) carried out a field mapping of trees on OpenStreetMap on the campus of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), with the support of mobile applications. The MapComplete (https://mapcomplete.org) application was used to record photographs of the individual trees and include data on relevant attributes, such as the circumference of the tree, i

Introduction Leadership often begins with a question: How can we use what we know to serve the communities around us, and how can we change the community with what we have? When I assumed office as President of the KNUST YouthMappers Chapter (2024–2025), I carried a strong passion for community engagement, environmental sanitation, and climate action. As a geospatial community enthusiast, I believed our work and activities should go beyond mapping and translate into visible i

Being selected for the 2024 YouthMappers Leadership Fellowship Program was a life-changing experience that allowed me to develop my...