UN Mappers Weekly Mapathon

The UN Global Service Centre (UNGSC) and three UN peacekeeping missions (UNSOS, MINUSCA, and MONUSCO) established in August 2019 the foundation of a global initiative called UN Maps, which aims to enrich the topographic and operational data in UN missions and other areas in developing countries with the goal to support the UN-wide activities in their field endeavors, such as peace, security, and logistics by providing its peacekeepers with topographic maps, search and navigation tools, imagery, and street-level base maps, 2D and 3D visualization that will help them in their tactical and operational activities.In order to achieve the above goals, the UN Maps initiative is building a thriving community around the collection, validation, usage, and dissemination of geospatial data, called UN Mappers.

UN Mappers

Join us, map, learn and support UN Peacekeeping missions in Africa.

The goal of the weekly mapathons is to enrich the OSM geodata in different areas to assist the UN missions in their field endeavors, such as peace and security, navigation, and logistics, by providing its peacekeepers with topographic maps that will help them in their operational activities.About usUnite Maps is a mapping initiative that aims to assist UN peacekeeping missions in their field endeavors, such as peace and security, navigation and logistics, by providing its peacekeepers with topographic maps that will help them in their tactical and operational activities. Unite Maps is providing OSM topographic data as an organised editing activity and we inform, contact and collaborate with all the local communities living and editing in the areas where we map too. More information about the Unite Maps Initiative can be found <a href="https://geoportal.dfs.un.org/arcgis/apps/sites/#/unitemaps" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>. UN Mappers is a thriving community ranging from UN personnel on the field (GIS groups, UN offices, military and police) to academia (highschools and universities), from local communities and NGOs to any remote volunteer in the world. You can be part of a wonderful community of mappers by contributing to our HOT projects with your local group and friends! More info <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Unite_Maps_Initiative/UN_Mappers" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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