by andrew | Dec 4, 2021 | Blog, New Maps, Updates
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 month, there is a different...
by andrew | Sep 9, 2018 | Blog, Updates
This week marks the annual Māori Language Week (10-16th September 2018), so to get people interested in Te Reo I thought I’d revisit the maps I’ve made of the Māori place names of New Zealand/Aotearoa! I first became interested in mapping Māori names last...
by andrew | Mar 13, 2018 | Blog, New Maps
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 spelling of place names...
by andrew | Dec 15, 2017 | Blog, Portfolio Work
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, making up 78.21% of our...
