Topographical maps of New Zealand for your Garmin GPS are now available. more »
This video is a great example of how data visualisation can be used to make a large amount of data easily understood and place the data in a contest to make sense of it.
The New York Times uses a Flash application to make stock market performance data manageable.
In addtion to update maps and aerial photos, this release adds ESRI Shape file support, Forerunner/Edge GPS support, Maidenhead Squares and a number of minor bug fixes
The previous release added geocaching.com Pocket Query support, reduced Windows resource usage, new printing options, new real-time GPS options. It is available as a free download for existing users here.
MapToaster Topo/NZ provides seamless topographic maps for New Zealand. Version 3.0 includes improved GPS waypoint and track management, new file formats (GPX, LOC and Excel), improved navigation and much more. Upgrade pricing is available for existing users (including TopoMap NZ and TopoMapPro version 2). more »
MapInfo User Group NZ Conference 2006, Sep 28 2006 - Sep 29 2006, Copthorne Hotel and Resort - Paihia. Take a look at the MUGNZ website for more details.
Here are couple of fine online maps that make information accessible and understandable. These are electronic maps, made with Flash, built to tell a story.
The first example is a literary index to Manhattan that maps events in the lives of fictious characters. The second example is an animation that shows an aspect of the current conflict in Iraq by mapping US coalition fatalities by time and geography.
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LINZ has published the summary of submissions on the strategy for geospatial information.
The gadget site Engadget has a section for the latest GPS technology.
With high quality presentation and clever use of JavaScript and CSS Google Maps and Endoxon set a new standard for Internet mapping. The technology behind Google Maps is discussed in more detail by Directions Magazine and also at as simple as possible, but no simpler.
The NZ Recreational GPS Users Society website provides a forum and resources for people who use GPS for activites such as tramping, 4WD, geocaching etc. You can join online - it only costs $10/year.
Devised by Buckminster Fuller, it projects the earth onto an icosahedron, which is then flattened out. Shows the world without splitting any continents and without much distortion of shapes or areas.
Collaborative project by a few kiwis who are interested in Geographical Information System (GIS) software, and the associated spatial data that goes with it... more »
Easy to use software for converting MapInfo(tm) tables between NZMG the new NZ Geodetic Datum 2000 & NZ Transverse Mercator Projection. The latest release does bi-directional conversion between NZTM and NZMG and also can import Local Circuit data. Download the demo. more »
Cookbook web page for linking photos to a map using GPS (you can do this in NZ with our MapToaster Topo software)... more »
The NZ placenames file in the downloads area has been updated with Feb-2003 data. This table is derived from the LINZ Geographic Placenames database. The data is in NZMG MapInfo format and includes lat/long and NZTM as attributes. more »