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New Zealand Maps and Cartography of all sorts by Andrew Douglas-Clifford (@andrewdc_nz 🏳‍🌈).

Christchurch City, New Zealand
Joined November 2016
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Day 7 of #30DayMapChallenge: 10 Minute Map The towering Himalaya range draw a stark contrast of desert and delta, of dry and damp. From space, it's easy to see how this region can contain so many varied landscapes and extremes.
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November marks the start of the annual #30DayMapChallenge! Across the month I'll be sharing new maps on social media for some of these challenge themes, so be sure to follow along! You can learn more at 30daymapchallenge.com/#2026-…
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Introducing Ingoa Wāhi o Aotearoa - a map of Māori place names from the traditional south-is-up Ao Māori perspective. Now available from The Map Kiwi. andrewdc.co.nz/product/te-re…
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Introducing the second edition of our Te Reo #Māori Place Names wall map of #Aotearoa #NewZealand! Now featuring highly requested dual Māori and English language place names, more detail/corrections, and a refreshed aesthetic. andrewdc.co.nz/product/te-re…
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Day 30 of #30DayMapChallenge: Makeover 🗺️🌟 To wrap the month, I'm revisiting perhaps one of my most shared (and sometimes misunderstood) maps - Nobody Lives Here. Now with added explanations for why we have so much unpopulated space!
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Day 27 of #30DayMapChallenge: Boundaries 🍰 Crossing culinary boundaries, last week's GIS Day celebration included a Christchurch property boundary themed cake!
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Day 24 of #30DayMapChallenge: Places and their names 📍 Be warned and take all necessary precautions - you are never far from a Knob!
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Day 21 of #30DayMapChallenge: Icons 🥝When taking a road trip through #NewZealand, you might spot a range of larger than life oddities on the road side. These iconic statues can be found all across the motu.
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Day 20 of #30DayMapChallenge: Water 🌊 Revisiting a map I produced for The Conversation with Tom Shand earlier this year - how a monster ocean swell can spread from one side of the vast Pacific Ocean to the other. theconversation.com/how-ocea…
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Day 15 of #30DayMapChallenge: Fire ☀️ From the great fireball in the sky to your power socket - Christchurch buildings have a lot of potential for solar energy production! ⚡
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Day 13 of #30DayMapChallenge: 10 Minute Map ⏱️ An ever dancing pattern of harvests in the Kaingaroa Forest in New Zealand's North Island. Darker patches reveal trees that have been around for longer.🌲
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Days 10 and 11 of #30DayMapChallenge: Air and Minimal 🛄 The radial paths of flight connections from Christchurch, New Zealand, coloured by the number of jumps between routes ✈️
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Day 4 of #30DayMapChallenge - My Data 📑 One of my longer running projects has been my Te Reo Māori Place Names project, collecting names for thousands of features across NZ. Coming soon - a sneak preview of the second edition update to the printed wall map!
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Day 2 of #30DayMapChallenge - Lines 📈 We see roads with North, South, East or West in their names all the time - but do they actually travel in their stated direction overall?
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Day 1 of #30DayMapChallenge - Points 🌸 Of the Garden City's botancial delights, the site of the pink and white Cherry Blossoms is perhaps one of the most anticipated and visually dramatic.
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An expedition to the New Zealand Pole of Inaccessibility (the most remote place in New Zealand) is not for the faint of heart! My map originally identifying the location they reached was featured in Stuff recently. stuff.co.nz/nz-news/36068903…
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Some long awaited updates to my interactive Te Reo Māori Place Names map, with a brand new look, search and even more detail! Check it out here: andrewdc.co.nz/2025/04/12/th… #TeReo #Maori #Maps
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Day 22 of #30DayMapChallenge: 2 colours Taking the stricter interpretation that the map background counts as a colour (and because I'm enjoying this style), here's a wine themed map of vineyards in Marlborough's Wairau Valley around Blenheim.
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Day 20 of #30DayMapChallenge: OpenStreetMap The Motueka area, situated northwest of Nelson in the Tasman District, is well known for its many orchards.
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