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.
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