New Zealand State Highway Metro Map Print
From $40.00The whole New Zealand map below:
The North Island:
The North Island has a surprisingly large number of State Highways, which makes things a bit more crowded. Being a South Islander, I now know the North a lot better after working on this. Who knew there was a town called National Park?
Update: These maps were featured by the New Zealand Herald, Stuff.co.nz and M2 Magazine, and were included in the University of Otago's Hockens Collection. I also appeared on Radio New Zealand's Checkpoint program with John Campbell, you can watch the interview here.
I've also created an Australian map which you can check out here.
New Zealand State Highway Metro Maps (including North Island and South Island variants) by Andrew Douglas-Clifford is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Love these maps! Looking really nice. One question though – would these maps be improved with the State Highway numbers on the roads, in a little red shield?
Yeah. One thing this is missing is a key. The colours in a metro map correspond to something.. in this case, it’s state highways.
You could do something like this: http://tonesandtints.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/subwaymapkey4.jpg
which wouldn’t necessarily break the style too much.
They’d be improved as useful maps for some people, but the point of them being depicted as subway maps would then be compromised.
Artist’s prerogative, I guess. I like them in any case!
That’s a really long distance between fox glacier and franz josef, only 21km but looks like 180km .
Metro maps are topological, meaning they show connectivity between places only. So it’s not a useful map for measuring distance because it’s not geographically accurate.
Awesome stuff – reminds me of the MTR maps in Hong Kong.
Such a great print! Is it possible to get an A3 print?? Can’t fit an A1 or 2 in my place 🙁
Hi Justine, glad you like it! Unfortunately not able to offer A3’s at the moment!
Hello just saw your metro map of New Zealand’s North Island.
How could Ashhurst be left off but Woodville included?
Ashhurst is directly on the other side of the Manawatu Gorge from Woodville, on the way to Palmerston North.