I've had a fantastic two months study trip to New Zealand. Unfortunately, I had to go back to Norway this week to fill up my bank account - just when the summer was arriving in New Zealand. I'm going to miss the beautiful country with its great people.
New Zealand is the perfect country to map, as an isolated country surrounded by a vast ocean, and because of all the free data available. I hope my Mapping New Zealand blog series has been useful for others as well:
It's a lot of exciting things happening on the New Zealand mapping scene, and the Kiwis are very welcoming people. I want to thank all the nice people I met on my journey, who was very willing to share their knowledge and experiences:
I've been a real map nerd in New Zealand, but I had lots of time to explore the country too. Here are a few of my photos:
New Zealand is the perfect country to map, as an isolated country surrounded by a vast ocean, and because of all the free data available. I hope my Mapping New Zealand blog series has been useful for others as well:
- Getting free data in New Zealand
- Creating a Seafloor Map of New Zealand
- Creating a seafloor map using shaded relief
- Creating a custom map tiling scheme for New Zealand’s seafloor
- Dealing with the antimeridian in TileMill
- Editing and merging shapefiles with QGIS
- Creating a shaded relief map of New Zealand
- Doing magic with TileMill
- Exporting tiles from TileMill
- Creating a "Where I've Been" map with Leaflet and CartoDB
- How to control your Leaflet map with URL parameters
- Where are the hot and cold springs?
- Clustering DOC Huts with Leaflet
- Creating a road map
- Mapping the regions of New Zealand with MapShaper and Leaflet
- Mapping the population density of New Zealand with QGIS, SQLite and TileMill
- Exploring the MapBox stack: MBTiles, TileJSON, UTFGrids and Wax
- Creating map labels with TileMill
- New Leaflet plugin to handle multiple TileMill layers
It's a lot of exciting things happening on the New Zealand mapping scene, and the Kiwis are very welcoming people. I want to thank all the nice people I met on my journey, who was very willing to share their knowledge and experiences:
- Organisers and participants at GeoCart'2012
- The Koordinates.com guys
- PlanetInAction (Paul van Dinther), you should check out his great Google Earth based helicopter simulator.
- Organsiers and participants at the Mountain Cartography Workshop
- The geospatial team at Landcare Research in Palmerston North.
- The mapsmiths at Geographics - the best cartographers in New Zealand!
- The geospatial team at Department of Conservation in Wellington.
- Brent Wood and Kevin Mackay at NIWA.
- NewTopo (Geoff Aitken).
I've been a real map nerd in New Zealand, but I had lots of time to explore the country too. Here are a few of my photos:
2 comments:
Thank you for this series. I am an Msc student studying GIS. The course is very ESRI centric and though I am learning a lot I feel that I need to also learn to use the tools that you've demonstrated in your series. I hope to get some time to replicate your New Zealand maps and hopefully learn some of the techniques you've demonstrated.
Thanks a lot for this great series of blogposts! I am following your blog via RSS and missed not a single post. Mapping has become very easy with great open source tools like QGIS, Tilemill, Leaflet.
In 2007 I was travelling by bike for about 6 month in NZ and enjoyed it very much!
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