Episode 36

After all the fluff and nonsense New Zealand has a new coalition government, we take a look at the coalition’s policies and ask what might it mean for our industry here in NZ.  Plus we take a look at local and international news from rendering thousands on polygons on the fly using Mapbox to submitting maps for the 2018 GeoHipster calendar.

Spatial News

• BNZ takes a hit in the receivership of NZ Aerial Mapping

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/98181941/bnz-takes-28million-hit-in-receivership-of-nz-aerial-mapping

• Emerging Spatial Professionals Taupo Conference

https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/emerging-spatial-professionals-agmmini-conference-taupo-2017-tickets-38259111031

• Hundreds of thousands of polygons rendered on the fly

https://blog.mapbox.com/hundreds-of-thousands-of-polygons-rendered-on-the-fly-9eb0b81b64f3

• Data is the key to unlocking the spatial revolution

https://koordinates.com/blog/data-key-unlocking-spatial-revolution/

• 3D Buildings in Wellington, New Zealand

http://wcc.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=4561446e7f384a969cfbe368e9ca0002

• Defending SF against aliens with Unity + ARKit

https://blog.mapbox.com/defending-sf-against-aliens-with-unity-arkit-8b173773756d

• 2018 GeoHipster calendar

http://geohipster.com/2018-geohipster-calendar/

• Thoughts on Cesium.js

Thoughts on Cesium.js

Topic of the Week

What does the new Labour and New Zealand First coalition government mean for the GIS Industry, we take a look their plans.

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/10/the_labour_-_nz_first_agreement.html