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 Full Courses

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

OTHER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING OPEN MAPPING


The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, GeoForAll resources 


ADDITIONAL RESOURCES OF USE TO YOUTHMAPPERS CHAPTERS  - FUNDING & PARTNERSHIPS