On this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Eric Rasmussen talk with Dr. Patricia Solis, Associate Research Professor at the School for Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University, and the Director and Co-Founder of YouthMappers.

00:50 The mission of Youth Mappers

Youth Mappers

01:50 Where did this idea come from?

USAID

GeoCenter at USAID

2015 Kathmandu Earthquake

Humanitarian Open Street Map Team

Kathmandu Living Labs

05:20 Can a student start a chapter of YouthMappers at their school?

06:55 What kind of projects can they work on, and do you help?

Youth Mappers Academy

Teach OSM

American Red Cross training center

Open Street Map - Puerto Rico

10:30 Efforts at regional capacity building, and encouraging international meetings

11:45 Leadership programs, Fellowship programs

Fellowship programs (closed for 2023)

2023 Leadership workshop in Jamaica (66 students selected, 27 countries) for climate mapping and more (closed for 2023)

14:00 Can students reach out and up to local governments? Yes!!!

16:30 Inspiring for young people, and all data is freely available on OSM

Open Street Map

Activity.YouthMappers.org

17:45 Youth Mappers have mapped at least 16 million buildings and 500,000 km of roads, and labeled more than 80,000 building tags.

18:20 Stories of the Mappers: Open source book by Springer-Verlag, voices of the students, Sustainable Development Goals series. (Spring 2023)

Open Mapping toward Sustainable Development Goals (Springer, ISBN: 978-3-031-05184-5) - not yet released as of 11 October 2022

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

19: 20 Documentary on YouTube: Sierra Leone open mapping data Arizona State University and the Ministry of Energy in Sierra Leone.

Youth Mappers documentary on YouTube

Arizona State University YouthMappers home

"Be a good ancestor"

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