Blog Update January 2023 – 30 Day Map Challenge, NACIS Atlas of Design and more
The Map Kiwi
by andrew
1y ago
It’s been a while since the last blog update, but if you’ve been following my social media you will have seen that it’s been a fairly busy 2022! Here’s a quick recap of happenings. 30 Day Map Challenge 2022 A big highlight of the year of course is the #30DayMapChallenge, which rolls around every November primarily on Twitter, but also on other social media platforms as well (including Mastodon!). For this November’s challenge, I created 20 maps, which I think is a pretty solid effort. As always, it was a fun way to try out some new ideas and techniques, and often unexpected ones. The beauty of ..read more
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#30DayMapChallenge 2021- A Wrap Up
The Map Kiwi
by andrew
2y ago
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 theme or topic to map. There are no requirements on how many maps are made – some people may just do a couple, while others might attempt to cover nearly all of the themes. Ever since doing my previous self-styled 7 Day Cartography Challenge back in 2017, I’ve enjoyed the concept of just sitting down and smashing an interesting map out ..read more
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Māori Language Week 2020 Quiz – Find the answers and be in to win!
The Map Kiwi
by andrew
3y ago
Just in time for Māori Language Week 2020, we’ve done another round of adding many more Te Reo names to our interactive map of Māori place names. To get you exploring the map some more, we’re running a quiz with a chance to win! For the week starting Monday 14th September through to Monday 21st, we have hidden three locations in the map. Zoom in to find the marker and see if you are correct. This is what it looks like when you find the correct answer: There are three markers hidden in the below map. Find all three, take a screenshot of each, and be in to win a Te Reo Māori Wall map. Details ..read more
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All new Map Dots!
The Map Kiwi
by andrew
4y ago
You might remember back in 2017 we released a few maps of NZ places called Map Dots – simple and minimalist designs of New Zealand’s largest cities. Now, the design has been refreshed with a new look, with a wide range of new places and colour options available! Each design is available in blue, red, black and green colours, and contains the place name in both English and Te Reo, alongside the latitude and longitude. The following New Zealand cities and places are available as map prints on the store: North Island: Whangarei Auckland Waiheke Island Tauranga Hamilton Taupo Rotorua Lakes Tarana ..read more
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Atlas in a Day – Migration
The Map Kiwi
by andrew
4y ago
This post was written at the end of March 2020 about my experience taking part in Guerilla Cartography‘s ‘Atlas in a Day’ 24 hour event in October 2019 and how the map now relates to the current pandemic. As a remote cartographer working from Christchurch, New Zealand, I wasn’t quite sure what theme to expect when I signed up for Atlas in a Day. I wasn’t a stranger to rapid map design. A few years ago, I did my own 7-day cartography challenge, doing a new and different map for each day of a week. For the Atlas in a Day, the mapping the topic of migration was something a bit different, and a br ..read more
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Maori Language Week 2019 – Map Giveaway for NZ Schools!
The Map Kiwi
by andrew
4y ago
Since it’s Maori Language Week, The Map Kiwi is giving away three A1 sized Te Reo Māori wall maps to Aotearoa schools! Enter your details below – the winner will be chosen after entries close on 25th September 2019. The giveaways is open to NZ Primary and Secondary school email addresses, one entry per school. Loading… The interactive Te Reo map has also been updated! There’s now hundreds of new names of localities, peaks and waterways added for the South Island, Stewart Island and the Chatham Islands. Recen ..read more
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Blog Update August 2019 – Te Reo Place Names Open Data, NZ State of Cartography and more
The Map Kiwi
by andrew
5y ago
It’s been a little while since I’ve posted, so I thought I’d distil some of the maps and activities I’ve been up to in the last few months into a neat little summary. For the latest, you can always follow our Facebook or Twitter pages. Te Reo Māori Open Data A big part of my Te Reo Māori mapping efforts has been the ongoing effort to populate OpenStreetMap (OSM) with as many Māori language names as possible across New Zealand. While the database has been open source and freely available to download from OSM, it’s not something everybody knows how to extract. To make the data accessib ..read more
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Behind the Map: Putting Together a Satellite Basemap
The Map Kiwi
by andrew
5y ago
Recently I was working to update my Te Reo Maori Map of New Zealand with a new background. I learnt a couple of things while making it, so I thought it might be interesting to quickly share the process. The map uses the wonderful NZ wide 10m cloud-free Sentinel imagery provided by LINZ under CC-BY-4.0. Unfortunately, while the imagery looks great on land, it doesn’t extend very far off the coastline as you can see below, which doesn’t make it so useful for a nationwide scale map. Therefore we need to do some work to smooth/fill out out the look of the ocean. To create a realistic ..read more
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Supporting the Victims of the Christchurch Mosque Shootings
The Map Kiwi
by andrew
5y ago
The Muslim and wider communities of Christchurch and New Zealand were left reeling in the wake of the Mosque shootings that took place on March 15th, leaving 50 people dead. While much has already been said about the atrocities that took place in my city, the huge outpouring of love and support that’s been shown have been nothing short of inspiring since. For me, maps are my way of getting to know a place better. If you’ve been following for a while, you might have noticed that a lot of my maps are of Christchurch. Despite having lived here nearly 15 years, each map that I’ve made has brought ..read more
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