Those of you that follow my social media pages during the month of November will of course be familiar with the 30 Day Map Challenge – a social media cartography challenge predominantly centered around Twitter. For each day of the
As part of the 7 day cartography challenge last year, I created two maps showing Te Reo Māori names of towns and cities names across Aotearoa/New Zealand which were well received. Naturally, I wanted to improve the maps by researching the
With 4.6 million people spread out over 268,021 km², New Zealand is not a crowded place when compared to more densely populated countries such as Japan and the UK. The below map shows just how much land is uninhabited per square kilometre,
Trams used to rule the streets of New Zealand in the first half of the 20th Century, with Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin and more all developing extensive tram networks. Sadly, as car use became more widespread and service running costs
A little while ago, I set myself a challenge of creating seven maps over the period of a week, posting a new map each day on my Facebook and Twitter. It was challenging to complete each resulting map within the
A colleague recently shared with me this map of the US counties that was surprisingly colourful and intricate. I thought I’d have a go at making a similar map for Christchurch and Wellington, this time taking property parcel boundaries from Land Information
The Guardian recently featured Gretchen Peterson’s City Maps: A Coloring Book For Adults (a pretty awesome piece of cartography!) with a quiz to guess the locations of global cities from a blank street map. New Zealand wasn’t featured sadly, so I decided to create my
I’ve had an overwhelming response to my South Island Metro map, and a lot of requests for the North Island as well. I’m happy to say that it’s finally here! I’m also excited to announce that print versions of these maps
This map shows how interesting the terrain that Banks Peninsula has, in a similar style to some of New Zealand’s earlier terrain maps, which I got the inspiration for after playing around with open elevation data. The difference here is
Update: You can now get this print (and the rest of New Zealand) on the Map Kiwi Store! I’m a big fan of the original London Tube map and other metro maps, so I created my own to show the South Island’s State
