This map depicts the land cover, terrain, walking tracks, and backcountry huts of Nelson Lakes National Park, New Zealand. The physical landscape is given prominence over human infrastructure.
Natural colours ...
This map depicts the land cover, terrain, walking tracks, and backcountry huts of Arthur’s Pass National Park, New Zealand. The physical landscape is given prominence over human infrastructure.
Natural colours ...
2022 was the fourth year of the #30DayMapChallenge
Over the first three years my participation dwindled (due to lacks of time, inspiration, and/or enthusiasm), but this year I posted every ...
Published in the October 2022 edition of Wilderness magazine
Linework style oblique maps in colour and greyscale, highlighting the terrain, huts and campsites, and ...
Published in the September 2022 edition of Wilderness magazine
Linework style oblique maps in colour and greyscale, highlighting the terrain, huts and campsites, and ...
Published in the August 2022 edition of Wilderness magazine
Linework style oblique maps in colour and greyscale, highlighting the terrain, huts and campsites, and ...
A human-powered expedition to link all of NZ's highest peaks
Published in the Autumn 2022 edition of Climbing in Aotearoa: The New Zealand Alpine Journal
In the summer at the end ...
Mitre Peak / Rahotu
5th–6th February 2022
Milford Sound / Piopiotahi,
Fiordland National Park
Climb with Rachel Jones and Alice Payn.
When a red warning of rain put paid to our canyoning plans on ...
Imp Grotto
16th January 2022
v4a3II***
Haast Pass / Tioripātea,
Mount Aspiring National Park
Descent with Paul du Temple and Rachel Jones.
The final descent of an epic weekend, after Falls Creek on Friday and ...
Wilson Creek
15th January 2022
v4a4IV***
Haast Pass / Tioripātea,
Mount Aspiring National Park
Descent with Paul du Temple and Rachel Jones.
After a massive day descending Falls Creek in Fiordland the day before, we ...
Falls Creek
14th January 2022
v5a5IV***
Hollyford River / Whakatipu Kā Tuka Valley,
Fiordland National Park
Descent with Paul du Temple, Rachel Jones, Patrick Timm, and Strahn Neill.
Slightly hesitantly, we set off for a ...
Mill Creek
8th January 2022
v4a4II**
West Wānaka Conservation Area,
Matukituki Valley, Otago
Descent with Rachel Jones, Patrick Timm, and Emma Stanley.
The waterfalls in Mill Creek look quite intimidating from above, but most of ...
Robinson Creek
7th January 2022
v4a3II***
Haast Pass / Tioripātea,
Mount Aspiring National Park
Descent with Emma Stanley.
This was my first time teaming up with Emma, so we went for a short but spectacular ...
Ore Stream
5th January 2022
v4a5IV***
Haast Pass / Tioripātea,
Mount Aspiring National Park
Descent with Rachel Jones, Patrick Timm, and Gareth Riches.
I hadn't met Patrick or Gareth before, but after the one canyon ...
Lewis Pass Tops
31st December 2021 – 3rd January 2022
Lewis Pass Scenic Reserve and
Lake Sumner (Hoka Kura) Forest Park
Tramping with Liv Feary.
Most people take one or two days to complete ...
Mt Alexander
24th–26th December 2021
Kaimata Range,
Ōtira–Kopara Forest Conservation Area
Tramping with Hanni Hopsu.
Our initial plans for a five-day Christmas tramp in south Westland were scuppered by weather, so we fell back ...
Mather Creek
18th December 2021
v4a4III***
Haast Pass / Tioripātea,
Mount Aspiring National Park
Descent with Gavin Barry-Morgan, Hugh Simons, and Rachel Jones.
After getting Hugh back into canyoning with a post-lockdown lap of Cross ...
Cross Creek
17th December 2021
v3a2II***
Haast Pass,
Mount Aspiring National Park
Descent with Gavin Barry-Morgan and Hugh Simons.
After driving to Makarora from Christchurch, we decided we had time for an evening lap of ...
The mountains of southern Tajikistan
From the Spring 2021 edition of Climbing in Aotearoa: The New Zealand Alpine Journal
This map was created to illustrate an article by Pat Deavoll detailing ...
Plan oblique linework
From the Spring 2021 edition of Climbing in Aotearoa: The New Zealand Alpine Journal
This map was created to illustrate an article by my friend Nia Weinzweig about ...
Hochstetter's 1859 map of the Auckland Volcanic Field
Rendered in 3D using modern elevation data
"The Isthmus of Auckland with its extinct Volcanoes" is one of the iconic maps of the ...
#30DayMapChallenge 2021
Day 8 – Blue
Orthographic view of the southwest aspect of Kirikirikatata/Mount Cook Range, created in Blender using Freestyle and annotated in ...
#30DayMapChallenge 2021
Day 7 – Green
One from the very recent archive.
An A1-sized poster of a bike ride down the length of the South Island.
This was commissioned by a friend as ...
#30DayMapChallenge 2021
Day 6 – Red
Digital Surface Model of Christchurch, but just the ambient occlusion output from Blender, supplemented with Ōtākaro/Avon River and Lakes Victoria and Albert in Hagley ...
#30DayMapChallenge 2021
Day 3 – Polygons
Mayor Island
A hillshade generated from hillshade-contour polygons, using a method described by Russ White in his 2021 Nacis ...
Rome Ridge
22nd October 2021
Grade III, 2+
Mount Rolleston,
Arthur's Pass National Park
Traversing the 'horizontal' part of Rome Ridge, just before the Shark's Tooth, in the early morning sunlight.
“Looking at doing Rome ...
A map of the route taken on a weekend trip to the Sealy Range, Aoraki Mount Cook National Park.
Created in Blender using a toon shader and freestyle lines, and ...
Mueller Hut and Mt Annette
1st – 3rd October 2021
Grade I, 1
Sealy Range,
Aoraki Mount Cook National Park
Mueller Hut (1800m), partially buried in the snow, with Aoraki/Mt Cook behind.
My housemate and ...
Wilderness magazine special issue
Wilderness magazine commissioned me to create a map of each of New Zealand’s Great Walks for their September 2021 special issue.
NZ has ten great walks across ...
Touch Down
14th August 2021
WI3 60m (we did 30m)
South Face of Single Cone,
The Remarkables
The view from the snow cave.
From The Remarkables ski area, Ed and I made use of a ...
New Zealand Alpine Journal article
A full-bleed spread and four half-page maps illustrating the route taken by a group on their traverse of the Southern Alps/ Kā Tiritiri o te ...
1:10,000 scale topographic map of Broken River ski area
Craigieburn Range, Canterbury, New Zealand
During summer/autumn the field is devoid of snow, but still open for walking, biking, etc.
This map was ...
Twin Creek and Barrack Creek
5th & 7th February 2021
Twin Creek and Barrack Creek in Arthur's Pass National Park
Twin Creek v5a2III***
Bealey Valley,
Arthur's Pass National Park
The start of the 70m abseil ...
Day 30 of #30DayMapChallenge
A Map
A 3D view of one of New Zealand's Great Walks.
The issue with using the LINZ Topomap images for 3D perspective maps is that unless you're ...
Day 24 of #30DayMapChallenge
Elevation
A 3D render of New Zealand's North Island volcanic plateau, including arguably the most popular day-walk in the ...
Day 10 of #30DayMapChallenge
Grid
The New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000 (NZTM2000) projection covers the main islands and is the preferred projection for spatial data in New Zealand. It is based ...
Day 7 of #30DayMapChallenge
Green
This is similar to last year's 'Green' map of Auckland, which showed vegetation points from LiDAR.
The LiDAR available for Christchurch is not fully classified, so this ...
Day 3 of #30DayMapChallenge
Polygons
I created a low-poly mesh in Blender, and using a reference image moved vertices to follow some of the main ridges and valleys in Aoraki Mount ...
Day 02 of #30DayMapChallenge
Lines
An experiment in creating neon lights in Blender.
Speed limit data from Christchurch City Council allowed me to create a set of road centrelines to which I ...
Day 1 of #30DayMapChallenge
Points
Bounded by Deans, Harper, Rolleston, and Moorhouse Avenues, the park contains a golf course, cricket ovals, rugby fields, and the Botanic Gardens, as well as Ōtākaro ...
Ski touring trip to Tasman Saddle Hut
New Zealand Alpine Club / Alpine Recreation
Me and a few friends went on a guided ski touring trip to the top of Haupapa/Tasman ...
Mt Torlesse (1961m) via Kowai River
14th June 2020
Grade I, 1+
Torlesse Range,
Korowai/Torlesse Tussocklands Park
Mt Torlesse viewed from the Kowai Valley
My legs were feeling the previous day's climb up Mt Philistine ...
Created in collaboration with Andrew Douglas-Clifford for Guerrilla Cartography's Atlas in a Day: Community
The locations of all 150+ Sister Cities around the world and their New Zealand pairings
Read more ...
NZMS 180, 2nd Ed. October 1961
Rendered with modern elevation data
Part of the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, including Aoraki / Mount Cook, the highest point in ...
Aotearoa Bike Challenge 2020
Rides around Auckland
My company once again took part in the Aotearoa Bike Challenge in February this year, riding for commutes and for leisure, and logging the ...
An endlessly tessellated and wildy psychedelic map of the world's ocean(s) in the Spilhaus projection
For information about this map projection, check out The Spilhaus World Ocean Map in a Square ...
Day 30 of #30DayMapChallenge
Home
My new home in the style of my old home
I grew up in a house full of Ordnance Survey paper maps, and have constantly used them ...
Day 29 of #30DayMapChallenge 2019
Experimental
Subluminal, Swanage, UK
This is an interactive 3D model of a sea cliff near Swanage on the south coast of England, augmented with the lines of ...
Day 26 of #30DayMapChallenge
Hydrology
A network map of the rivers, canals, and tunnels which make up the hydroelectricity scheme in the central North Island.
Water flowing off the volcanoes (Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, ...
Day 25 of #30DayMapChallenge 2019
Climate
This dataset from Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research shows the mean annual solar radiation across NZ. Higher 'elevations' indicate more solar radiation, which has the bizarre ...
Day 23 of #30DayMapChallenge 2019
Population
Trestle View Campsite, Coromandel, New Zealand
I’m spending the weekend camping and canyoning in the Coromandel, a spectacularly beautiful piece of NZ, and only a couple ...
Day 22 of #30DayMapChallenge 2019
Built Environment
I finally found a way of programmatically creating lights in Blender using the bpy python library. After working a bit of FME wizardry on ...
Day 21 of #30DayMapChallenge
Environment
After creating a similar small multiple map for New Zealand’s National Parks, I decided that Auckland’s parks needed some love.
There’s heaps of them, and quite a ...
Day 20 of #30DayMapChallenge
Rural
A map that I'm very proud of.
The only two ingredients are the Topo50 map images and the digital elevation model, both from the LINZ Data Service, ...
Day 19 of #30DayMapChallenge
Urban
A bit of a work in progress, and my first transit map à la Harry Beck.
The colours are pretty garish, and I didn't have time or ...
Day 18 of #30DayMapChallenge
Globe
An interactive global tour of every Frank Turner show to date*
To date*, Frank has clocked up 2,424 shows (as of today) across 48 countries around the ...
Day 16 of #30DayMapChallenge
Places
The top 30 'Things to Do' (read as: *places* to visit) in New Zealand, according to Trip Advisor
Some of these places are obvious, such as the ...
Day 14 of #30DayMapChallenge
Boundaries
Every ball from the World Cup final match between New Zealand and England, which was ultimately decided by a count back of ...
Day 13 of #30DayMapChallenge
Tracks
GPS tracks of my skiing career at the two main ski areas Mt Ruapehu, on the North Island of New Zealand. Each area is rotated so ...
Day 12 of #30DayMapChallenge
Movement
In January 2017 I arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, and for some reason decided to start recording a GPS track of everywhere that I travelled.
This map ...
Day 11 of #30DayMapChallenge
Elevation
A 'Joy Plot' of the University of Minnesota's Polar Geospatial Center's Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica
This is built from a 0.5° × 0.5° grid of sample ...
Day 10 of #30DayMapChallenge
Black and White
Something I've been wanting to try for a while is vector hillshading.
I created a normal raster hillshade of Mt Ruapehu, then split it into ...
Day 9 of #30DayMapChallenge
Yellow
Nautical chart of one of the most famous inlets on the South Island of New Zealand, augmented with 3D bathymetry/topography using Blender.
The bathymetry data comes from ...
Day 8 of #30DayMapChallenge
Green
Central Auckland, depicted only using LiDAR points classed as medium or high vegetation, supplemented with park extent polygons (also symbolised with millions of tiny ...
Day 7 of #30DayMapChallenge
Red
Genuine authentic pirate map of vineyards (according to LINZ Topo50 data) and individual wineries (according to New Zealand Wine) on Waiheke Island in the Hauraki Gulf.
Pirate ...
Day 6 of #30DayMapChallenge
Blue
Relative Elevation Model of Wairau River, Marlborough, New Zealand
Unlike a standard elevation model which shows height above a zero datum, a relative elevation model shows height ...
Day 5 of #30DayMapChallenge
Rasters
Aerial imagery of Auckland from 2017, blended with imagery from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, sourced from the excellent Retrolens, and the 1951 NZMS1 LINZ topographic ...
How far can you (theoretically) walk in a straight line, without crossing a sealed road or a body of water?
Inspired by a similar map from Ordnance Survey, I used ...
