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We’ve recently updated our Looking Back Tool with the latest (2023) Census data. You can now see how the built environment has changed over the last 10 years, along with how much the population has changed. A little background…. When you curate and maintain New Zealand’s most complete and up-to-date geospatial dataset you get to see small, incremental change every day. But as we all know, over time, incremental change adds up and sometimes a bit of time, distance and perspective are needed to REALLY see how much has actually changed. For instance, in 2014, New Zealand had a population of roughly 4.5 million and today we’re at about 5.2 million. Change of this scale requires infrastructure to match and huge areas of New Zealand’s built environment have also changed dramatically in this time. We capture all of this incremental change at NationalMap, meaning organisations that subscribe to NationalMap can easily analyse, compare and contrast all sorts of data visually. With that in mind, we built a side-by-side map comparison (our Looking Back Tool) for anyone interested in seeing this built environment change for themselves. If you were wondering any of the following: ·      How much bigger your town has got in terms of built area ·      How much bigger (or smaller!) your town has got in terms of population ·      How significant all those speed limit changes really were Then you can find all of this on our Looking Back Tool for the whole of New Zealand. https://lnkd.in/g5XyqSDM On the left of the visualisation is the NationalMap basemap and associated data from 2014, and on the right is 2024. We’ve added some presets in the drop down at the top which you can check out, or you can just pan around to find your own specific area of interest. This Looking Back Tool utilises just a tiny fraction of our Points of Interest (POI) data that includes features such as; hospitals, schools, petrol and charging stations, supermarkets, banks, railway stations and more. Feel free to share your thoughts on how you believe the world has changed since 2014 in the comments below and if you feel NationalMap data can help your business then please do get in touch. #geospatial #builtenvironment #census2023 #datafordecisionmakers

NationalMap Data Lead Derek Love coordinates all the updates made to our datasets each month. Here’s his product update report for October 2024. ------ NationalMap data has once again been updated on the NationalMap Data Service. Here are a few of my highlights for the month.   ROADS DATASET ·      10,500 edits to the Roads database (includes updates from 1 new and 4 revised Council approved HPMV* permits, national speed limit changes, West Auckland Rural, Northland Rural and Bay of Plenty Rural 2024 Imagery) ·      155 Roads made live ·      34 new proposed roads added to the database. *HPMV (High Productivity Motor Vehicles) are trucks able to operate above the current 44 tonne weight limit under permit.   NON-COMMERCIAL POINTS OF INTEREST (POI) DATASET Our Non-Commercial POI dataset (found in our NationalMap Base Product) currently totals 32,580 individual points of interest in 33 different categories as at October 2024. Categories include Beach Access (814), Civil Defence Centres (834), Community Services (1,241), Hospitals (156), Parks/Reserves (7,499), Schools (2537), Sport and Fitness (1,669), Tourism (229) and many more.   YOU CAN CHECK OUT OUR LATEST RELEASE NOTES FOR MORE DETAILS HERE: https://lnkd.in/gqS3QsKJ DID YOU KNOW?   The recent Forest and Bird 2024 Bird Of The Year winner was the Hoiho (Yellow-eyed Penguin). We thought it was interesting to look at what was the most popular bird having roads named after it. The top bird name is Tui with 86 roads named after it, while the BOTY winner Hoiho only has 4. Hoiho (Yellow-eyed Penguin) - 4 Tūi - 86 Kererū     - 46 Weka - 45 Kākā - 38 Kōtare (Kingfisher) - 37 Pūkeko - 36 Ruru (Morepork) - 36 Kōtuku (White Heron) - 33 Kea - 26 Korimako (Bellbird) - 24 #datafordecisionmakers #nationalmap #nzgeospatial

It’s not your imagination, some towns in NZ just have more roundabouts. In this infographic you can see NZ’s top 5 destinations for volume of roundabouts as a percentage of their total road network. If you love roundabouts, learn about 5 reasons why roundabouts should be celebrated here: https://lnkd.in/gPwd85pS #GIS #nzroads #geospatialdata

ICYMI - Super-Site Me: Why are fast-food restaurants located where they are? A lot of research suggests that there is a strong association between neighbourhood deprivation and the location of, or access to, fast-food outlets.   NationalMap’s “Points Of Interest (POI)” database can often help validate or illuminate these types of questions or hypotheses for a New Zealand context.   In this instance, we mapped our fast-food or “Quick Service Restaurants” database against the New Zealand Deprivation Index to see if we could find some answers.   As always, the answer is a little more complex and nuanced than the headlines. It’s also worth noting that this post is now well over a year old, so some change would be expected if we did the same analysis today.   But that’s the beauty of NationalMap of course, the ability to monitor change over time.   You can check out the post and associated infographics here: https://lnkd.in/gUE-Kfvc #GIS #pointsofinterest #geospatialdata

ICYMI - If all the roads in NZ were 100km, here’s what that 100km would look like… There’s well in excess of 100,000 km of drivable roads in New Zealand, so if we were to reduce all that to 100 km, what proportion of those 100 km comprise motorways, or rural roads versus urban?   In 2022, the NationalMap team put together a couple of infographics inspired by this concept to more easily visualise the variables and variability in our nation’s road network. It’s worth noting that the infographics and data in this post are a snapshot in time and part of the power of the NationalMap database is the ability to actually see, compare and understand changes through time and in different historical states. Think speed limits and how much they have changed in the last 2 years. Of course, NationalMap is always on top of the very latest speed limit changes and this is why our data is so widely used in routing and navigation. You can check out the post and associated infographics here: https://lnkd.in/gn9xPPmp #GIS #nzroads #geospatialdata

NationalMap Data Lead Derek Love coordinates all the updates made to our datasets each month. Here’s his product update report for September 2024. ------ NationalMap data has once again been updated on the NationalMap Data Service. Here are a few of my highlights for the month.   ROADS DATASET ·      5,500 edits to the Roads database (includes updates from 2 new and 7 revised Council approved HPMV* permits, national speed limit changes, Otago Rural/Urban, Ashburton Urban and Waitaki Urban 2024 Imagery) ·      34 Roads made live ·      34 new proposed roads added to the database. *HPMV (High Productivity Motor Vehicles) are trucks that are able to operate above the current 44 tonne weight limit under permit.   COMMERCIAL POINTS OF INTEREST (POI’s) As at September 2024, 9,578 Commercial POI’s have been captured in total, across 14 different categories. This includes Financial Services (579), Hospitality (426), Postal Services (786), Quick Service Restaurants (1,287), Retail (1,240), Service Stations (1,693), Supermarkets (695) and many more.   YOU CAN CHECK OUT OUR LATEST RELEASE NOTES FOR MORE DETAILS HERE: https://lnkd.in/gqS3QsKJ DID YOU KNOW?   One of the significant updates for September is the Te Ara Pekapeka Bridge in Hamilton. This opened 30 August and is released on the September basemap and our road network.   The bridge connects the new suburb of Peacocke (which is expected to have up to 20,000 future residents) to Hamilton. The four lane bridge caters to public transport, pedestrians, cyclists, and strategic water, wastewater, and stormwater networks. #datafordecisionmakers #nationalmap #nzgeospatial

Awesome work Derek!

New Zealand’s reputation as a premier adventure tourism destination is well-earned. But if you find yourself in a medical emergency in some of our more remote adventure destinations, you might be in for a challenging journey to the nearest Accident and Emergency (A+E) unit. To find out more, check out the latest post (and accompanying visuals) from Andrew Smith, NationalMap’s General Manager here. #geospatialdata #NZroads #GIS #pointsofinterest https://lnkd.in/ghWkbSbp

NationalMap Data Lead Derek Love coordinates all the updates made to our datasets each month. Here’s his product update report for August 2024. ------ NationalMap data has once again been updated on the NationalMap Data Service. Here are a few of my highlights for the month.   ROADS DATASET ·      12,500 edits to the Roads database (includes updates from 12 new and 7 revised Council approved HPMV* permits, national speed limit changes, 50Max** and Bridge Restriction Review + Waimakariri 2024 Imagery) ·      51 Roads made live ·      16 new proposed roads added to the database. *HPMV (High Productivity Motor Vehicles) are trucks that are able to operate above the current 44 tonne weight limit under permit. **50MAX vehicle combinations have one more axle than conventional 44-tonne vehicles combinations. 50MAX gives operators the ability to carry increased payloads on parts of the network that, while economically important to New Zealand, carry lower volumes of freight.   ENHANCED ROADS DATASET   Our Enhanced Road dataset now has 113,728 km of connected, formed roads (as at August 2024). It represents real world road features, such as Roundabouts, Dual Carriageways, Ramps and Slip roads. Turn Restriction (3,330), Level Crossing (1,719), Bridge Crossing (3,269) and Bridge Restriction (1,888) datasets add additional context to the Enhanced Roads dataset.   YOU CAN CHECK OUT OUR LATEST RELEASE NOTES FOR MORE DETAILS HERE: https://lnkd.in/gqS3QsKJ DID YOU KNOW?   We have been busy updating the HPMV network as Councils publish their preapproved networks. This now includes nearly 50 Councils and over 5,000 Roads (27,000 links) classed as preapproved. This might sound a lot, but is still only about 5% of our road network! #datafordecisionmakers #nationalmap #nzgeospatial

ICYMI - How the private sector adds value to government data   Many New Zealand Local and Central Government agencies do a great job of providing free public access to the data they collect and create. But what value can private sector data companies add to public data?   Although this post was written some time ago and NationalMap’s road attribute data has since been enhanced with layers such as our 3D Road dataset, its message remains evergreen. The core message is that by concentrating on real-world, commercial use cases, private sector data companies can significantly enhance the value of publicly available data. #GIS #nzroads #geospatialdata https://lnkd.in/gggnApnQ