master maps

I needed a way to control the appearance for my Leaflet map of New Zealand , especially when embedding a map with an iframe. Leaflet have...

I wanted to create a "Where I've Been" map of my trip around New Zealand. The map should be easy to update through a simple w...

I wanted to publish a tiled version of my New Zealand maps. I first tried to upload my maps directly to MapBox.com from TileMill, but their...

Finally, I got some time to play with TileMill . I've added some textures to my shaded relief map, and I'm quite happy with the res...

After creating a shaded relief map of New Zealand's seafloor , and it's time to move onshore. I'm going to use the same slope-...

The data you want to map is not always in the format you need. I was looking for a dataset containing polygons for all land areas (islands)...

I want to play with my new seafloor map in TileMill , which is a great map design studio. It’s built on top of Mapnik , but instead of XML...

First of all I want to thank Brent Wood at National Insitute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) for inviting me to their office af...

I'll use the bathymetry data from NIWA to create a seafloor map of New Zealand using shaded relief techniques. I used the same techni...

New Zealand is the perfect country to map, not only because of all the free data available - it also has a very interesting topography, abo...