How does your favourite produce or product actually get from “gate to plate”?
Feb 9, 2022 1:33:01 PM / by Andrew Smith
What’s your limit? High speed roads, houses and home-buying decisions
Dec 6, 2021 1:01:33 PM / by Andrew Smith
Visual of the western greater Christchurch area showing legal speed limits and the houses they impact.
Putting New Zealand on the map: Geopolitics, propaganda, conspiracy and cartographic distortion
Nov 9, 2021 9:11:52 AM / by Andrew Smith
Sometimes it seems like there is an almost weekly occurrence of New Zealand being “left off” a world map somewhere.
Location, Location, Location: Housing Development & Infrastructure
Sep 27, 2021 10:52:18 AM / by Derek Love, Data Lead
A proposed housing development south of Auckland got me thinking about the location of new housing
My expertise is mapping…..mapping the above ground, or ‘viewable world’, but there is a whole other world in underground services, which is vital to our everyday as we know it.
Sea-air and common sense: Permitted movement in your local area when at Alert Level 4
Aug 26, 2021 11:57:29 AM / by Andrew Smith
Last weekend there were a lot of cars parked on the beachfronts of New Zealand while we were in level 4 lock down. A number of coastal locals were getting a bit grumpy, wanting to dob-in these (as they saw it) non-local lockdown breakers – feeling that they should be doing their exercise closer to home.
Data asset security & sovereignty for nationally important geospatial datasets
Jul 22, 2021 3:20:27 PM / by Andrew Smith
We keep hearing that data is the new oil and while you would be unsurprised to learn that here at NationalMap we have ALWAYS seen the value of high quality geospatial data – it seems the rest of the world is finally catching up with that concept.
Change is constant – make sure you’re always up to speed with NationalMap data
May 21, 2021 12:20:28 PM / by Andrew Smith
Far reaching school zoning and speed limit changes (planned and proposed by the Ministry of Education and Waka Kotahi respectively) have been very much in the news recently
If you have a routing or fleet management system, here's 10 reasons why you need NationalMap data
Apr 15, 2021 4:18:20 PM / by Andrew Smith
We’ve all read (perhaps with varying degrees of amusement) the seemingly endless stories of epic GPS fails. This compilation of disaster from “The Travel” website is a favourite, as it covers such a range of instances where things can “go wrong”.
Every little bit helps. It’s a statement that really couldn’t be truer than when it comes to tackling the challenge of climate change and environmental sustainability.