New Zealand Mapping

I haven't found much about Maori maps and it seems that most mapping was oral and the a few examples that have been drawn, where then copied by someone else. More information about early New Zealand mapping can be found here.

Map of New Zealand. Barnes, L A W, fl 1875 : Log book of a Pacific tour aboard HMS Minotaur, HMS Pearl and HMS Sappho. Ref: MSY-6144-153a. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22881887.

Maori place names map, limited number of names on this map

Image from NZ History Online

Maori place names of Banks Peninsula

Image from Christchurch City Libraries

Reproduction of a reproduction of a chalk map, I think that's right?

Image from Otago University

Psychogeography

Psychogeography is, for me anyway, a means to explore a place, area, city by getting lost or wandering around click here for more information.
I have used some of the ideas of psychogeography when working with school students and communities as a way to explore their local area by setting them some tasks and then combining the resulting information into a map.
Another way psychogeographers have used to discover new places is to use a map of one city to navigate around another, for example using a map of New York to get around Wellington.

Maps - All Shapes and Sizes

Via Strange Maps

Ammassalik Wooden Maps 

Crown Lynn map plates 

Dante's Inferno

Word Map London

Stick Chart 

Animal skin map 

Cake Maps

Map of the Internet

Skull Island

Richard Long - Red Walk

Tape Cassette Map

Welcome

I have set this blog up as a place to put links and information about mapping that might be of interest to those attending my Chalkle workshop on creative mapping.

Mapping is huge subject and the idea for the workshops is to explore some creative ways to make maps and what we might do with the maps we make for example collaborating on an Atlas of Wellington.

Please feel free to let me know of your own interests or ideas and we can use them as part of the workshops.