🎉 Our Mapper of the Month for June is James Owornte from Nigeria 🇳🇬

James is one of our new validation candidates and is our top validator for the Ceel Gadde roads project validating 52 tasks or almost 30% of the project. He is also one of our top mappers for the previous month, adding 35 km of roads.

Read our interview 👉 https://maps.un.org/news/un-mapper-month-june-2026

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🎉 Our Mapper of the Month for May is @lishhhhliaaak from India 🇮🇳

Nitya supported the mapathon communications with @thefossclub. She is also one of the top mappers for the India flood mapping projects.

We welcomed Nitya to the #UNMappers community and asked about her experience & motivations contributing to open geodata while being a student and active part of the #FOSS community. Read our interview👉 https://maps.un.org/news/un-mapper-month-may-2026

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🎉 Our Mapper of the Month for April is Maria Maily from Scotland 🇬🇧

Maria is one of our new validation candidates and is our top validator for the Ceel Gadde roads and waterways projects. She validated 85 tasks or 37% of both projects.

We asked Maria her motivations to actively contribute to generating open geodata in unmapped areas to support peacekeeping and disaster response 👉 https://tinyurl.com/MOTM0426

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🎉 Our Mapper of the Month for November is L Kennedy Vaiphei from India 🇮🇳

Kennedy is our top contributor for the UN Mappers x FAO Agricultural Waterways Mapping in Southern Mauritania Project 3 - he mapped around 573km of waterways and 140km² of farmland areas.

Read his story 👉 https://tinyurl.com/MOTM1125

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🎉 Our Mapper of the Month for October is Rubi Shrestha from Nepal 🇳🇵

Rubi is our top contributor for the UN Mappers x FAO Agricultural Waterways Mapping in Southern Mauritania Project 4 - she completed 204 tasks covering 1,168 km2 area, and she mapped 323 km of waterways.

Read our latest blog with Rubi's interview 👉 https://tinyurl.com/MOTM1025

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🎉 Our Mapper of the Month for August is Gilles Noye (OSM username: gnoye) 🎉

Gilles is an expert mapping contributor who is part of the HOT Global Validator Team and #UNMappers Topographic Validators. He is our top validator for the #FAO Agricultural Waterways Mapping in Southern Mauritania Projects - he validated 1,395 tasks (or 41% of all the projects) covering more than 8,000 km² of project area.

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