YouthMappers

OpenStreetMap US hosts YouthMappers as a Charter Project!

Dec 19, 2025 · OpenStreetMap US Staff

The OpenStreetMap US team is beyond excited to welcome YouthMappers to the portfolio of OSM US Charter Projects, formalizing a partnership that builds on nearly a decade of collaboration between our two...

Meta-YouthMappers Walkabout Project

Jan 24, 2025 · Chad Blevins and Alex McDonald

This collaboration between GW YouthMappers and Meta is expanding across the US! Students trace and validate pedestrian features into OSM, while developing their skills and building community.

Workshop: JOSM, First Steps

May 22, 2021

Facilitated by members of the YouthMappers Validation Hub.

YouthMappers Validation Hub

May 21, 2021 · Katherine O’Byrne and Noelle Dwyer

Since 2014 YouthMappers has been teaching university aged students about OSM and generating lots of data. In 2019 YouthMappers formed the Validation Hub to address potential data issues with YouthMappers projects, provide...

The YouthMappers Network: Broad and Narrow Perspective

May 21, 2021 · Dara Carney-Nedelman and Sophia Rapp

YouthMappers is an international network of 264 university-student-led chapters in 58 countries. We organize, collaborate, and implement mapping activities that respond to actual development needs around the globe - creating and using...

Mapping Community Connections: Hudson Valley Mappers' Work in Poughkeepsie

May 21, 2021 · Benjamin Bachman

Hudson Valley Mappers (HVM) is a local chapter of YouthMappers, a project of the USAID GeoCenter. HVM is based at Vassar College, and most of our projects focus on mapping in our...

Importance of Coordination Between YouthMappers

Oct 30, 2020 · Joel Odongo

YouthMappers: 5 years of building a worldwide student mapping network

Oct 14, 2020 · Chad Blevins

This OpenStreetMap US Virtual Mappy Hour features an update on the YouthMappers program with guest presenter Chad Blevins.

How to get College Students engaged with Mapping

Sep 7, 2019 · Renee Wah and Cyrus Caughey

Learn how an undergraduate student kickstarted the Tobler Society, a mapping-centric student organization at the University of Chicago. Through its ‘Mapathons’, the Tobler Society has already won YouthMappers’ Most Active New Chapter...

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