A successful BGM was held via Zoom teleconference on 3 Sept with 22 members attending. Special congratulations to Lesley Murphy on her award of a Life Membership for long service to the Society over the past 12 years! 

The new Committee for the next two years is:
- President: Roger Smith (Geographx)
- Vice-President: Dr Tony Moore (University of Otago)
- Secretary: Shannon L. McColley (Land Information New Zealand)
- Treasurer: Brent Brady (Eagle Technology)
- Committee: Igor Drecki (University of Auckland), Ben Jones (Isthmus Archaeology), and Andrew Tyrrell (Botha Miskell)

Following the BGM held at GeoCart'2018, NZCS is pleased to announce its new Committee for 2019-2020.

President: Roger Smith
Vice President: Tony Moore
Secretary: Shannon McColley
Treasurer: Lesley Murphy
Representatives: Brent Brady, Andrew Douglas-Clifford, Igor Drecki, and Benjamin Jones

The Biennial General Meeting was successfully held on February 18, 2013.  There were reports on the previous period, amendments to rules and the Society constitution, and a new committee was elected.

Refer to the minutes for additional details.

Pictorial maps convey information using illustrations, images and text to engage the viewer. They gained popularity in first half of the 20th century and are undergoing a renaissance as contemporary mapmakers find creative ways to expand traditional notions of cartography.  ANZMapS is hosting a free Zoom webinar on pictoral mapmakers and mapmaking to be held Thursday, 19 May.

Speakers include: Melinda Clarke, Adam Mattinson, and Anton Thomas.

Visit the event site to register and for more information.

NZCS and the Alexander Turnbull Library are pleased to announce the second State of NZ Cartography seminar, Geospatial Data for New Zealand, will be held at the National Library of NZ in Wellington on Friday, 12 November 2021. 

The full-day event will consist of short presentations concerning the development, maintenance, application, curatorship, and preservation of geospatial data in NZ. The programme will feature a mix of invited speakers, representing producers of nationally significant datasets, academics, industry practitioners, and librarians.

For everyone stuck at home in isolation and looking for something different to do, Daniel P. Huffman has put together a very interesting activity for Thursday, 30 April called "How to Do Map Stuff: A Live Sharing Event". 

This will be a day of free volunteer presentations and live tutorial streams, so join in and learn some new tricks and techniques from others in the international cartographic community.

Please visit the website for more details.

Emerging Spatial Professionals will be hosting their 2019 careers symposium at the Ellen Melville Centre in Auckland on 16 November 2019. 

Following on from the success of 2018, ESP are lining up industry leading speakers to share their valuable professional experiences and advice on careers or starting a business. Presentations this year will be in the geospatial, geography, geology, and archaeology fields, as well as a series of lightning talks from Emerging Spatial Professionals members to showcase some of their personal work.

Visit the Facebook page for more details and to register.

NZCS will be hosting a one day seminar -- "State of New Zealand Cartography" -- at the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington on 28 June, 2019. 

The full-day seminar will consist of short presentations from a variety of organisations and individuals about recent and current mapping activities.  Light refreshments will be provided.  Registration is free but space is limited. 

Registration will open the week of June 10.

The Australian and New Zealand Map Society will be hosting a Historical Maps Online workshop preceding GeoCart'2018.  It will be held the morning of 4 September at Rutherford House on the VUW Pipitea Campus.

Registration is now open.  Please visit Historical Maps Online for more information.

The New Zealand Cartographic Society and Australian and New Zealand Map Society are proud to announce the 9th National Cartographic Conference and 46th Annual ANZMapS Conference, GeoCart'2018. The event will convene in Wellington from 5-7 September, 2018, and be hosted at the outstanding facilities of the National Library of New Zealand. A Map Design Workshop and two ANZMapS-sponsored workshops will precede the conference.

The call for paper and poster submissions is now active; please visit GeoCart'2018 EasyChair to submit an abstract. Registration will open for the event in April.

NZCS is privileged to host its 2016 Map Design with ArcGIS workshop, delivered by leading cartographer Kenneth Field (ESRI Inc. - USA).  

This is a continuation of the very successful MDW workshops held over the past several years.  The workshop will precede GeoCart'2016 and will be hosted at Victoria University of Wellington on August 29 and 30.

Registration is now open.

The NZ National School of Surveying and NZCS are proud to present a special seminar by Prof. William Cartwright of RMIT University, Melbourne.

NeoCartography: Citizen Cartographers, GPS, Consumer Electronics, and Mapping
14 May, 2015, 12pm | School of Surveying, 1st floor seminar room

Thanks to the efforts of Committee Member Marney Brosnan, NZCS is pleased to share a highlights reel and overview video from the GeoCart'2014 conference in Auckland.

DOWNLOAD (mp4 | 298MB)

NZCS is privileged to host another Map Design with ArcGIS workshop, delivered by leading cartographer Kenneth Field (ESRI Inc. - USA).  

This is a follow on to the successful 2012 Map Design workshop on thematic cartography.  The workshop will precede GeoCart'2014 and will be hosted at the University of Auckland on September 1 and 2.

Registration is now open.

NZCS is privileged to host the Map Design with ArcGIS workshop, delivered by leading cartographers Kenneth Field (ESRI USA), Aileen Buckley (ESRI USA), and Igor Drecki (University of Auckland).

This is a follow on to the successful 2010 Map Design workshop. The workshop will precede GeoCart'2012 and will be hosted at the University of Auckland on August 27 and 28.

Registration is now open.

The fifth National Cartographic Conference, GeoCart'2010, and the first ICA Symposium on Cartography for Australasia and Oceania was hosted at The University of Auckland (New Zealand) on September 1-3, 2010. The Conference was endorsed by the International Cartographic Association (ICA).

Keynote speakers included: Cynthia Brewer (Pennsylvania State University), Manfred Buchroithner (Technische Universität Dresden), David Crossman (NZ Defence Force GIO) Phil Allen (GeoSmart), and Colin MacDonald (LINZ). Special Presentation by: William Cartwright, President of the ICA.

The programme is available for download.  Proceedings are available on compact disc by request and cost NZ$30.  Professional papers, posters, and other submissions will be collated in the proceedings.  A book will soon be available comprising the best papers as reviewed by an international scientific programme committee.  It will be published as part of Springer’s Lecture Notes in the Geoinformation and Cartography series.

There were 188 entries from 33 countries in this year's Barbara Petchenik International Children’s Map Competition in Tokyo. New Zealand’s own 9-year-old Barnaby Blampied from Matakana School won 2^nd place in the 9-12 years age category with his marvelous map entry entitled "A Turtle’s Tear: Our Plastic Oceans".  This is fantastic result and a hearty congratulations to Barnaby!

Barnaby's map and the other NZ winners can be viewed on the Children's Map Competition Winners page.

NZCS is proud to once again host the New Zealand Children's Map Competition. Winners will become New Zealand’s entries for the international Barbara Petchenik Children’s Map Competition 2019 in Tokyo in July. Further information may be found in the Competition Guidelines.

Entry deadline is 22 March 2019.

Thanks to all of the students who entered the New Zealand Children’s Map Competition 2017. We received over 250 entries and the judges awarded First, Second, and Third Place prizes in three age categories. First and Second Place winning maps will represent New Zealand at the international Barbara Petchenik Children’s Map Competition.

The winning entries are visible on the Children's Map Competition Winners page.

The Barbara Petchenik Award was created by the International Cartographic Association in 1993 as a memorial for Barbara Petchenik, a past Vice president of the ICA and cartographer who worked through her life with maps related to children. The aim of the contest is to promote the creative representation of the world in graphic form by children.

NZCS is proud to host the New Zealand competition again.  Registrations for 2015 are now open.  

Roger Smith and the Geographx team have been interviewed by OneNews about their role in the making of the world's biggest atlas, Earth Platinum.

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/giant-atlas-kiwi-connection-video-4555417

You can also listen to Roger describe the work in more detail on Radio New Zealand National Afternoons:

RNZNational-a_giant_atlas.mp3