Global peace needs global contribution. 

The contribution of everybody is important for peace. 

Become a UN Mapper!

Unite Maps is a mapping initiative that aims to assist UN peacekeeping missions in their field endeavors, such as peace and security, navigation and logistics, by providing its peacekeepers with topographic maps that will help them in their tactical and operational activities.

Through this initiative, the Department of Operational Support (DOS) of the United Nations helps countries torn by conflict to create the necessary conditions for lasting peace.

Unite Maps is providing OpenStreetMap topographic data as an organised editing activity and we inform, contact and collaborate with all the local communities living and editing in the areas where we map too. Unite Maps provides data both editing with an internal mapping facility and crowdsourcing with a community of mappers, the UN Mappers.

UN Mappers is a thriving community ranging from UN personnel on the field (GIS groups, UN offices, military and police) to academia (highschools and universities), from local communities and NGOs to any remote volunteer in the world. We organise trainings in order to empower volunteers in OSM editing, events of collaborative mapping (also called mapathons) and collaborations with local and remote communities of contributors to map the world, supporting peace and serving humanity.

You can give your contribution by editing OSM through our TM projects, which include topographic and urban mapping and crowdsourced imports from UN data. In every project you will find detailed instructions, in several languages, on how to best contribute.

Check your position on the UN Mappers leaderboard to see if you are the best UN Mappers out there! Stay tuned as we will have soon a UN Mappers community website and a Unite Maps Learning Hub, where you will be able to find all the educational material related to OSM.

Don’t forget to follow our activities through our social media or send us an e-mail if you want to stay regularly updated on our mapping activities or to propose further engagements.