#30DayMapChallenge Day 11: Minimal Map – Hikurangi Subduction Zone 🪡

A single sweeping line of tambour beading traces where the Pacific Plate dives beneath the Australian Plate along Aotearoa’s east coast.

The Hikurangi Subduction Zone is New Zealand’s largest and most active fault boundary.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 10: Air – Blown Away: Wind Zones in Porirua City 💨

Using coloured pencil, this map shows how wind exposure varies across Porirua from calmer pockets to very high and specific-design areas.
Designing for hazards is a complex problem. ✏️

#NaturalHazards #Cartography #Spatial

#30DayMapChallenge Day 9: Analog🗺️

This hand-drawn chalk map of Wellington City highlights the active faults that define our region’s landscape and seismic risk. The map traces how the city is shaped by the complex boundary between the Pacific & Australian tectonic plates. Data from GNS Science.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 8: Urban 🏙️🌊
Each tiny resin ‘diamond’ marks a cell that includes a tsunami evacuation zone. Red zones take priority; if even a small part of a cell falls inside, the whole cell is red 🔴.

🔴,🟠and 🟡: Evacuation zones

⚪: Built up areas

🟢: Land

🔵: Sea

#30DayMapChallenge Day 7: Accessibility🌄

What we see shapes what we value. Not everyone experiences the landscape in the same way. This visibility map of the Ruamāhanga catchment shows which areas are most and least seen from roads. 3D printing the terrain to make the landscape more accessible.

Day 6: Dimensions #30DayMapChallenge

Each air-dry clay hexagon was hand-crafted during a Critical Signals workshop on exploring risk and resilience. Each participant shaped their area based on an aerial photograph & when pieced together, the city takes form: imperfect, dimensional, and human.

🪡🌏Day 5: Earth #30DayMapChallenge

This cross stitched map shows the soil drainage patterns of central Wellington and Miramar, based on Land Environments of New Zealand (LENZ) data.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 4: My Data – The Illusion of Support ❤️💙

This map comments on political echo chambers using a red filter. National had the highest percentage party vote in 2023.

People tend to form relationships with others with similar views, which can make election results feel surprising.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 3: Polygons:
WREMO Region in Fabric 🧵

Eight local authorities make up the Wellington Region Emergency Management Office (WREMO) - working together to respond to floods, earthquakes, & other emergencies.

Created using the kinusaiga (Japanese fabric collage) technique

#30DayMapChallenge
Day 2: Lines – The Secret Life of Streams 💧

UV light reveals piped streams.

Early Wellington was shaped by streams flowing to the harbour. As the city grew, many were piped underground, hidden from sight but still running beneath our feet.

#Wellington #Flooding #cartography

#30DayMapChallenge starts tomorrow: 30 days, 30 map ideas.

If you’re using R, Python, or Julia, consider sharing open-source examples or tutorials. 🧭

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#GeoData #DataViz #Maps #SpatialViz

Day 1 #30DayMapChallenge: Points 🧵🪡

I created a hand-felted map of Wellington showing Community Emergency Hubs as buttons, using locations from the GWRC web map viewer (via the Natural Hazards Portal).

It is roughly to scale, offering a soft, tactile take on community resilience. 💚