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See you this Friday for the monthly #UNMappers Mappy Hour 🥳

📅 25 September, 10:00 UTC | 12:00 CET | 18:00 SG

Reserve your seats 👇
🎫 tinyurl.com/UNMappyHour-...

Bring your friends and a mouse 🖱️! See you! 💙
#UNMaps #UNMappers #opendata #UNMappersMappyHour #OpenStreetMap #volunteering #UNvolunteers
September 23, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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We’re joining #WomenInGIS Malawi Conference 2026 and we’re hosting a mapathon! 💙🗺️ 🙌🇲🇼

Event Details:
📆24th September 2026
⏰ 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (CAT)

Register via: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

See you!

#gis #geospatial #empoweringwomen #malawi #UNMaps #UNMappers #foss4g #openstreetmap
September 23, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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NEW UN Maps Learning Hub Course: QGIS Training

Jumpstart your GIS mapping skills using the free and open source software #QGIS 💻

Start learning with #UNMaps today 👇
📍 maps.un.org/learning/

📸ENGELBERT MODO

#UNMappers #OpenStreetMap #OnlineLearning #UNOnlineLearning #volunteering #foss4g #foss
August 6, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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In April 2026, #UNMappers Kenya partnered with @ylvoccf to collect drainage data in one of the areas most affected by flooding in Nairobi.

Read more👉 maps.un.org/news/nairobi...
#OpenStreetMap #ClimateAction #MapForImpact #OpenData #volunteering #UNvolunteers #UNvolunteering #KoboCollect #ChatMap
May 6, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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🌊 Mapping Resilience Across the Yamuna Basin 🗺️

A joint initiative by #UNMappers and The FOSS Club.

📅 19th April
⏰ 1:30 PM IST
🌐 Online (Jitsi)

🔗 Join here:
meet.jit.si/moderated/6b...

#UNMaps #OpenStreetMap #humanitarianmapping #mapping #openmapping #foss #foss4g #opensource #gischat #opendata
April 15, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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Are you a validator or curious about validating data and #mappingforpeace?

Join our last #ValidationFriday Mappy Hour for the year this Friday, 5 Dec! 🤩

📍OSMCal with room link 👇🏼
osmcal.org/event/4169/

#UNMaps #UNMappers #OpenStreetMap #mappyhour #volunteering #mappinf #crowdsourcing #gischat
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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📅 The initiative ran for two days: a training day on 17 April and a full field deployment on 18 April.

🌐 The team collected 110 drainage records & supported drainage cleanup. 🗺️ umap.hotosm.org/en/map/south...

#OpenStreetMap #ClimateAction #OpenData
#volunteering #UNMaps #UNMappers #gischat #kenya
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May 6, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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In collaboration with the Optus Academy of Geoinformatics🇺🇬 we held a training on #JOSM, one of the most powerful #OpenStreetMap tools for editing and quality assurance, participated by interns and the wider mapping community. 💙🗺️📍

#UNMaps #UNMappers #opendata #openmapping #capacitybuilding #training
July 21, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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Happening tomorrow, 25 July! ✨
Join us for our monthly #UNMappers Mappy H🕙ur 🥳

📍 Registration: tinyurl.com/UNMappyHour

We will have time for mapping and series of lightning ⚡talks!
See you there! 🙌

#UNMaps #OpenStreetMap #opendata #crowdmapping #volunteering #MappyHour #UNMappersMappyHour
July 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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🚀 New mapping projects alert!

🌊🌱 Join us as we support @fao.org in mapping agricultural waterways along the Senegal river in southern Mauritania.

🗺 👉 #23832 tasks.hotosm.org/projects/23832

Become a UN Mapper! 💙

#UNMaps #UNMappers #FAO #OpenStreetMap #foodsecurity #mapping #opensource
June 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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🎉 Our #MapperoftheMonth for June is James Owornte 🇳🇬

James is one of our new validation candidates & is our top validator for the Ceel Gadde roads project validating 52 tasks or almost 30% of the project.

Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/MOTM0626

#UNMaps #UNMappers #OpenStreetMap #volunteering #opendata
June 11, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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🗺 We are halfway through Project 1 of our agricultural #waterwaysmapping 🙌
📍https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/23832

Great work, everyone!👏

🥇BIG shoutout to our top contributors who maintain the pace for both mapping validation 🙌

Become a UN Mapper! 💙
#UNMappers #FAO #OpenStreetMap #opensource
July 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Reposted from #UNMaps Community Ambassador, Lucy Kago:

Launch and Week 1 of the #UNMappers Kenya Youth Climate Mapping Externship is a wrap! 👏🗺️

#UNMappersKenya
#UNMappersKenyaExternship2026
#ClimateMapping #gischat #mapping
#ClimateAction
#QGIS
#ClimateEngine
#openstreetmap
#communitymapping
July 7, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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🗺️#UNMappers x @fao.org mapping updates ✨

As of 22July, we have mapped 80% and validated 44% of Project 2 💪

🙌Thank you to our 73 mappers & shoutout to our top contributors🙌

Map with us & become a UN Mapper! 💙
📍 tasks.hotosm.org/projects/23833

#OpenStreetMap #agriculture #foodsecurity #opensource
July 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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We are joining #StateoftheMapAsia conference in Osaka+online next week!

Keep an eye out for the full #SotMAsia2026 programme🎤 stateofthemap.asia/schedule.html

Register🎫 sotmasia2026osaka.peatix.com

More: stateofthemap.asia

📷 #StateoftheMap Japan 2018

#UNMappers #OpenStreetMap #SotM #opendata
August 31, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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Ready to advance your #OpenStreetMap skills to support peace? 🧐🕊
Join our #UNMaps Validation training!

🗓13 February 2026
🌐Open to intermediate & experienced mappers
✅Register: tinyurl.com/UNMTraining-...

Become a UN Mapper!💙

#UNMappers #OpenStreetMap #mappingforpeace #volunteering #GIS #opendata
January 26, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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Our first #ValidationFriday of the year!

Let's validate roads👇
tasks.hotosm.org/projects/34626

📚 Visit our #UNMaps Learning Hub for to learn #mapping 👩‍💻 maps.un.org/learning/

Stay tuned for upcoming trainings! 💙

#UNMappers #openstreetmap #openmapping #volunteering #UNvolunteering #UNvolunteers
January 9, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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🎉Our #MapperoftheMonth for September is Fortunatus Ogwachi from Kenya 🇰🇪

Fortunatus was one of participants of the Youth Climate Mapping Externship* initiative in Kenya, and the top mapper of the cohort group.

Read our interview 👉 tinyurl.com/MOTM0926

#UNMaps #UNMappers #OpenStreetMap #opendata
September 11, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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Thank you for joining our webinar last week! 🙌

🎥 The recording is now uploaded in Youtube: youtu.be/uC6lX8j1p5I

🗺️ Even after the webinar, you can contribute to UN Maps and FAO by mapping our projects: tinyurl.com/UNMFAOprojMa...

#UNMaps #UNMappers #OpenStreetMap #opendata #agriculture #training
UN Mappers Waterways Mapping Webinar
YouTube video by UN Mappers
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June 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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CityMapper Externship: A UN Maps Community Ambassador and Chapter Initiative in Cameroon 🇨🇲

Thirty participants were trained and added #opendaa for social impact thru an exploratory externship initiative.

Read more 👉 maps.un.org/news/citymap...

#UNMaps #UNMappers #OpenStreetMap #maps #volunteering
June 8, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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📍 Join the mapping efforts for the East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia projects via MapSwipe app or web: web.mapswipe.org#/en/projects

Your contributions will enhance local map data needed for disaster response and recovery efforts. 🤝 #humanitarianmapping #opendata #openstreetmap #UNMappers #Indonesia
August 18, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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Maps can support peacekeeping. 🌍

This video shows how volunteers around the world contribute geospatial data to support UN humanitarian and peacekeeping efforts, including in South Sudan.

🗺️ Start mapping. Support peace. Join UN Mappers.

#UNMappers #MappyHour #MappingCommunity #OpenMapping
May 15, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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For this #ValidationFriday, help us map and validate buildings in Kandahar, Afghanistan 🇦🇫

📍https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/18553/
🏘 Feature to map: buildings
🌐 Open to beginners and advanced mappers

Become a #UNMapper! 💙

#UNMaps #UNMappers #OpenStreetMap #opendata #UNVolunteers #volunteering
October 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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📢 Calling #UNMappers with intermediate to advanced mapping skills 📢

In response to the Mw 6.0 earthquake that struck Afghanistan, we are supporting the #disastermapping:
📍https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?campaign=Afghanistan+Earthquake+2025&omitMapResults=0

#OpenStreetMap #volunteering #opendata
September 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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New to #OpenStreetMap and want to contribute to impactful causes through open mapping? 🗺
We're here to help!

Master the basics, editors & topographic concepts of #openmapping through the #UNMaps Learning Hub 👉 maps.un.org/learning/

📸Engelbert Modo

#UNMappers #foss4g #onlinelearning #volunteering
August 21, 2026 at 2:55 AM