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This quarter, YouthMappers have added over 360,000 buildings and 39,000 KM of roads to OpenStreetMap!
....Read more in our Third Quarterly 2020 Newsletter...
Our YouthMappers network of university chapters continues to grow and includes 222 universities in 50 countries! We are inspired by your enthusiasm for mapping the world a better place. To learn more about our chapters, visit the
chapter profile map on our website.
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Join us in welcoming the newest chapters approved by the YouthMappers Steering Committee this quarter:
- World University of Bangladesh, Bangladesh
- Tribhuvan University - Lamjung Campus, Nepal
- Northern Technical College, Zambia
- Evelyn Hone College, Zambia
- Tribhuvan University - Paklihawa Campus, Nepal
- Natural Resources Development College, Zambia
- Kwame Nkrumah University Zambia, Zambia
- University of Maiduguri, Nigeria
- University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Ghana
- Canadian College of Modern Technology, Sierra Leone
World University of Bangladesh YouthMappers practiced safe social distancing measures and opted for a virtual first chapter meeting with Regional Ambassador Maliha Mohiuddin.
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What the network has been working on
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Regional Ambassadors serve for one year and guide students as they organize and set up chapters at their universities, support the establishment of sustainable student leadership, and prepare students to become active participants of their local OSM community. This year, a special subgroup will dedicate their activities to reinforce the technical capacity of young women in existing YouthMappers chapters. Learn more about this dynamic cohort on the YouthMappers Regional Ambassadors page.
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YouthMappers, Sierra Leonean chapters, and researchers at Arizona State University continue to work with Mapillary and OSM Sierra Leone to advance the Mapping Power campaign, a series of mapping tasks organized across 5 open source platforms focused on identifying power distribution networks in rural Sierra Leone. Currently, students are working within four identified priority regions in an effort to confirm if utility poles are connected to existing power lines. This data will be valuable to the Ministry of Energy, national utility companies, and other energy sector stakeholders in Sierra Leone for rural electrification planning.
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Originally scheduled to take place in Cape Town, South Africa, State of the Map 2020 took place virtually on July 4-5, 2020. Three YouthMappers chapters showcased posters summarizing their achievements and activities over the past year. See all posters here.
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YouthMappers AGU from Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan reported on their activities since joining YouthMappers in 2019, including collaborating with MSF Japan, MapSwipe, and Missing Maps. They successfully translated MapSwipe to Japanese, supported an MSF mapathon, and used Instagram live to remotely train mappers to validate!
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CGIS YouthMappers at the University of Pretoria (UP) in South Africa organized a series of mapthons focused on mapping healthcare facilities in their local neighborhoods and informal settlements in partnership with the UP Department of Medicine in support of COVID-19 relief efforts.
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SUZA YouthMappers of the State University of Zanzibar in Tanzania mapped school performance to bring awareness to the amount of missing data on schools. They proposed updating urban datasets in Zanzibar by comparing existing data sets to identify data gaps. SUZA YouthMappers will validate data before adding to OSM.
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Wamala Fawaz, chapter president of the GeoYouthMappers chapter at Makerere University in Uganda, was featured in a USAID campaign highlighting ground-work in support of COVID-19 relief efforts worldwide. GeoYouthMappers are supporting Map Uganda's HOT Covid-19 Rapid Response microgrant project, which supports numerous national and humanitarian organizations on the frontlines. Data created through this mapping project will support the Ministry of Health and the Uganda Red Cross Society, with maps to enhance the relief and risk management response on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Geoffrey Kateregga, Community Programs Manager for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), surveyed OpenStreetMap community leaders across the continent and credits the rise of YouthMappers as one of the reasons for the growth of OSM communities in Africa. "Growing OpenStreetMap through universities is a good model, as the students have a direct incentive to volunteer through mapping and are gaining geospatial skills while at the same time contributing to open data." Currently, there are 111 YouthMappers African chapters, 50 % of YouthMappers chapters worldwide. Read the full report here.
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YouthMappers Regional Ambassador Maliha Mohiuddin expresses her support for collaborative mapping and celebrates how YouthMappers has created a space for student participation within the humanitarian mapping community.
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Michael Jabot, faculty advisor of the State University of New York (SUNY) Fredonia's YouthMappers chapter is mentoring the multi-chapter YouthMappers team participating in the Fall University Sprint of The Opportunity Project (TOP) organized by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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COMMUNITY NEWS Two YouthMappers were selected as Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Data Quality Interns. Aman KC (Tribhuvan University, Nepal) and Feredica Gaspari (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) began the internship in August and are responsible for ensuring data quality through validation across HOT remote mapping projects. Through this internship, Aman, Federica, and their cohort will gain hands-on experience in remote mapping using a suite of open-source tools, learn more about HOT, and further contribute to humanitarian mapping initiatives.
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What our chapters have been up to
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Chomba Chishala, Yusuf Suleiman
For more stories from YouthMappers around the world, visit
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QUARTERLY SPOTLIGHT: YouthMappers in action
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Azile Mdleleni, of the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology at the University of Pretoria, and Cristina Gómez, of the Department of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Panama, were selected as 2020 Esri Young Scholars. This year, the 27 awardees were honored virtually during the Esri User Conference. Topics ranged from transportation and navigation, urban planning, public health, security, to deforestation and conservation, environmental management, and flooding assessment among others. All selected projects used Esri GIS software in combination with existing and created data sets to spatially analyze local issues.
Cristina Gómez's project Propuesta de Ordenamiento Ecológico (Proposal for Ecological Management) was carried out in the micro-basins of the Río Tranca and Chichebre in eastern Panama and analyses the effects of population growth and rapid urbanization on natural resources. Deforestation, loss of biodiversity, soil degradation, and pollution all have lasting effects on the environment and surrounding communities. Appropriate zoning, guidelines, and environmental management are needed to protect delicate ecosystems and sustainably plan for the near future.
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Cristina Gómez, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad de Panamá.
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Launched in March 2020, we feature an online series of panels and training webinars organized by YouthMappers. Follow us on social media to sign up for future webinars and watch previous webinars on our YouTube channel.
Serves as a resource, guide, and repository of knowledge for all things YouthMappers.
Connect with YouthMappers Alumni on LinkedIn! Learn how to add YouthMappers to your LinkedIn profile here.
Our Activity Map shows where YouthMappers have been active in OpenStreetMap throughout the past five years. Viewers can search for all edits performed by individual OSM usernames associated with YouthMappers chapters or filter by all edits performed by an entire chapter. Explore it here.
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