Classroom Resources
YouthMappers supports university efforts to offer meaningful global learning experiences, build a socially engaged citizenry, enhance long-term scientific capacity around the world, and foster youth exchange and leadership. We greatly value and encourage our faculty mentors of chapters to consider how to integrate the student-led activities into the institutional offerings of home campuses. This page is a collection of free resources and syllabi to support such efforts. To add your syllabi, email us at info@youthmappers.org.
LITERATURE ON TEACHING AND LEARNING
Overview Powerpoint Presentation: “Humanitarian Mapping Education: A View on Curriculum,” Presented at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Summit, by Tom Mueller and Patricia Solís, September 13, 2017 Ottawa, Canada. Includes results of a 2017 survey of faculty on how they incorporate humanitarian mapping into their classrooms.
Recent Publications
Zarif Mahmud, Aarjav Chauhan, Dipto Sarkar, and Robert Soden. 2022. Revisiting Engagement in Humanitarian Mapping: An Updated Analysis of Contributor Retention in OpenStreetMap. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI '22 Extended Abstracts), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA 6 Pages. doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519728
Sarkar, D., & Anderson, J. T. (2022). Corporate editors in OpenStreetMap: Investigating co-editing patterns. Transactions in GIS, 00, 1– 19. doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12910
Thomas Larsen, Matthew Gerike & John Harrington (2021): Human-
Environment Thinking and K-12 Geography Education, Journal of Geography, DOI:
10.1080/00221341.2021.2005666
Patricia Solís, Sushil Rajagopalan, Lily Villa, Maliha Binte Mohiuddin, Ebenezer Boateng, Stellamaris Wavamunno Nakacwa & María Fernanda Peña Valencia (2020). Digital humanitarians for the Sustainable Development Goals: YouthMappers as a hybrid movement, Journal of Geography in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2020.1849067
Solís, P., Anderson, J. & Rajagopalan, S. Open geospatial tools for humanitarian data creation, analysis, and learning through the global lens of YouthMappers. J Geogr Syst (2020). doi.org/10.1007/s10109-020-00339-x [Free Download]
Roth RE, CM Sack, G Baldrica-Franklin, Y Chen, R Donohue, R Tolochko, and N Underwood. 2020. Web Mapping: A Workbook for Interactive Cartography and Visualization on the Open Web. Version 0.1. University of Wisconsin Cartography Laboratory: Madison, WI. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4009327 [Free Download]
Brovelli M.A., Ponti M., Schade S., Solís P. (2020). Citizen Science in Support of Digital Earth. In: Guo H., Goodchild M., Annoni A. (Eds.), Manual of Digital Earth (pp.593-622). Springer, Singapore. doi:10.1007/978-981-32-9915-3_18 [Free Download]
Brovelli, Maria A.; Zamboni, Giorgio. 2018. "A New Method for the Assessment of Spatial Accuracy and Completeness of OpenStreetMap Building Footprints." ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 7, no. 8: 289.
Solis, Patricia, Brent McCusker, Nawasinachi Menkiti, Nuala Cowan, and Chad Blevins. 2018. "Engaging global youth in participatory spatial data creation for the UN sustainable development goals: The case of open mapping for malaria prevention." Applied Geography, no. 98:143-155.
Price, Marie & Berdnyk, Andrii & Brown, Sudie. "Open Source Mapping in Latin America: Collaborative Approaches in the Classroom and Field." Journal of Latin American Geography, . Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/lag.0.0118
Solís, Patricia and Pat DeLucia. 2019. Exploring the impact of contextual information on student performance and interest in open humanitarian mapping. Professional Geographer 71(3):523-535. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2018.1559655
Coetzee, Serena, Marco Minghini, Patricia Solis, Victoria Rautenbach, and Cameron Green. 2018. Towards Understanding the Impact of Mapathons: Reflecting on YouthMappers Experiences. International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Spatial Information Sciences XLII-4/W8:35-42. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W8-35-2018.
Hite, Rebecca, Patricia Solís, Lindsay Wargo, and Thomas Barclay Larsen. 2018. Exploring Affective Dimensions of Authentic Geographic Education using a Qualitative Document Analysis of Students’ YouthMappers Blogs. Education Sciences (Special Issue on Authentic Learning) 8(4):173. DOI:10.3390/educsci8040173.
Solís, Patricia, Niem Tu Huynh, Daniel Carpenter, Maria Adames de Newbill, and Lynn Ojeda. 2017. Using an Authentic Project Based Learning Framework to support Integrated Geography Education linked to Standards and Geospatial Competencies. Special Issue on Transformative Research in Geographic Education, Research in Geographic Education 19(2):36-65.
Readings Used in Curricula on Humanitarian Mapping
Readings used in Partial Courses
CURRICULUM RESOURCES
Best Practices for Teaching Humanitarian Mapping
Best Practices Compiled for Full Courses
Best Practices Compiled for Partial Courses
Sample Course Sites and Syllabi
George Washington University, Smith, GEOG 6309: Geographic Information Systems for Disaster Management (intermediate to advanced course, thematic focused lab and project work)
George Washington University, Smith, GIS4DDR: Geographic Information Systems for Disaster Risk Reduction (online asynchronous course)
Texas A&M, Goldberg, GEOG 478: WebGIS (lab oriented intro course)
Texas Tech University, Solís, GEOG 4320: Open Mapping for Resilience (full 3 credit hour course dedicated to YouthMappers, project-based, service learning designation with student-created wiki learning site)
University of Maryland - Baltimore County, Smith & Villiger, GES 679: Applications in Geospatial Sciences: Humanitarian Activities (lecture and research paper oriented course)
University of Tampa, McFarland, GEO 235: GIS MapMaking for the Social Sciences (intro interdisciplinary course with OpenStreetMap Exercise)
OTHER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING OPEN MAPPING
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
Find resources for Teaching on the TeachOSM library
Find resources to provide to students for self-learning on the LearnOSM library
Survey Template - impacts of COVID-19 on well being in English and Spanish
MapSwipe Introduction and Instruction through Powerpoint presentation
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, GeoForAll resources
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES OF USE TO YOUTHMAPPERS CHAPTERS - FUNDING & PARTNERSHIPS
Fieldwork Program Workshop Recording- overview of research proposal guidelines and proposal requirements for YouthMappers Fieldwork Program
Solís, Patricia. 2009. Preparing Competitive Research Grant Proposals. Chapter in Aspiring Academics: A Resource Book for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty*, M. Solem, K. Foote, J. Monk (Editors). [Versión en Español]. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice-Hall, p. 137-164 ISBN-10: 0136048919.
Hermann, David and Shufro, Nick (Editors) (Solís, Patricia contributor). 2006. Mobilizing Resources: A Primer of Practical Ideas on How to Improve the Effectiveness of Public-Private Partnership Financial and Other Resource Requests. And Movilizando Recursos: Un Manual de Ideas Prácticas sober Cómo Mejorar la Efectivad de las Solicitudes de Finaciamiento y de otros Recursos de las Alianzas Público-Privadas. Published by the White Water to Blue Water Partnership, Secretariat United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Caribbean Environment Programme. ISBN: 978-0-89291-001-4.