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
01:50 Where did this idea come from?
GeoCenter at USAID
Humanitarian Open Street Map Team
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?
American Red Cross training center
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
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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