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Students from Fifteen Universities serve as Leadership Fellows to Fill Data Gaps in the World's
KATHMANDU, NEPAL; WASHINGTON, DC — More than ten million changes have been made recently to the world’s free, editable public map,...
Patricia SolÃs, Director/CoFounder of YouthMappers
May 15, 2017


Disrupting the Classroom
Is it possible to offer truly meaningful global learning experiences through a technical mapping course? Is it reasonable to think we...
Patricia SolÃs, Director/CoFounder of YouthMappers
May 12, 2017

Renewables for Open Source Data
At first thought it doesn’t seem as though the renewable industry and open source data don’t have much in common. However open source...
Kendall Merkel, Texas Tech University
Nov 14, 2016


Mapping is Like a Box of Chocolates
Nowadays I definitely do not think of myself only as a citizen of Bangladesh but also as a citizen of across the world. I am a valuable...
Maliha Binte Mohiuddin, Dhaka University
Sep 9, 2016

Eyes Opened to Humanitarian Mapping
It’s funny how sometimes-unexpected opportunities arise. You never plan on becoming involved in something, and then all of the sudden...
Kendall Merkel, Texas Tech University
Jul 28, 2016


YouthMappers reach out to schools
While YouthMappers is a network of university students, we are also keen on reaching out to secondary schools to reinforce pathways...
Patricia SolÃs, Director/CoFounder of YouthMappers
Jun 22, 2016

Earthquake response and recovery aided by HOT mapping
An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 hit Ecuador on April 16, and the open mapping community responded. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team,...
YouthMappers Staff
May 16, 2016


Students featured in ArcWatch
"We don't just build maps. We build mappers." That's the tagline for Youth Mappers, a new global network of university students making...
Carla Wheeler, ArcWatch Editor
Apr 8, 2016


Five-way mapathon a national record
For what may be the greatest number of university sites connected remotely and simultaneously in the US for a mapathon, five...
YouthMappers Staff
Apr 1, 2016


3-day mapathon disrupts San Fransisco
Hundreds of individuals, both in person and remotely, contributed time and effort to the mapathon at the American Association of...
YouthMappers Staff
Mar 30, 2016