Partner Programs

ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERS

• USAID GeoCenter - cofounder of YouthMappers, provides access to humanitarian projects, imagery, guidance to local 

• HOT  - collaborates extensively with YouthMappers through joint activities such as local capacity building and the use of tasking, validation and export tools

• AGS - offers GeoBadges to YouthMappers and a forum for presenting results, supports the engagement of secondary school teachers

• UCGIS - collaborates with YouthMappers through joint internships and webinar programming

• Mapillary - supports YouthMappers chapters around the world with donations of equipment and training support to take street-level photos into an open online environment

• TeachOSM - supports YouthMappers chapters to utilize a tasking manager site dedicated to learning remote mapping on OSM 

• GISCI - recognizes the hours contributed by YouthMappers to mapping projects as valid for requirements to earn the GIS Professional Certification

• Maxar - provides donations of high resolution imagery to select research action projects submitted by chapters worldwide

• MissingMaps - YouthMappers is a member of this group of organizations founded by HOT, the American Red Cross, British Red Cross, and Doctors without Borders to focus on mapping vulnerable communities

BLOGS OF INTEREST  

• YouthMappers Blog

• HOT, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team  

• Map Give 

• Missing Maps 

• MapBox 

• MapKibera 

• Directions Magazine 

• Crowd2Map

• Esri Education Team GeoNet 

• OpenStreetMap Foundation Blog 

• GeoWeek 

• Devex - Satellites for Sustainability

• Weekly OSM

• Spatial Reserves

SPECIAL DIRECT BENEFITS TO YOUTHMAPPERS CHAPTERS FROM OUR PARTNERS:

• Earn chapter designation as a Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) YouthMappers chapter 

• Collect YouthMappers badges as Organizer, Mentor, or Founder, as well as other Geobadges, which are individual credentials offered by the American Geographical Society (coming soon!)

• Request a toolkit from Mapillary for YouthMappers to take street view photos

• Request satellite imagery for detailed analysis and research with humanitarian and development purposes, donations offered to YouthMappers students and faculty exclusively. Please e-mail your request directly to info@youthmappers.org

• Request a mapping task to be created for your local chapter mapping efforts, such as for your campus, to be posted on the TeachOSM Tasking Manager site

• Request a certificate from YouthMappers to validate volunteer mapping hours for your portfolio required as part of professional certification from GISCI