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I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall

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The cartography industry and New Zealand have a long, complicated history.

I'm building a little map experiment where people rename places. Added a "$1 to show New Zealand" feature (if you click "No", it shows NZ for free anyway). NZ is a DLC now

> The cartography industry and New Zealand have a long, complicated history.

Spot Quiz: What was uniquely complex about the New Zealand Map Grid (NZMG) prior to its replacement with the Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000 (NZTM2000) in 2001 ?

Bonus points to those that answer sans google, bing, AI chat, etc.

NB this is a fun question to chase down for those that like projections, casting, surveying, etc. and you'll know you've got it when you have it, so no need for spoilers. Also, not exactly strictly unique, just very uncommon globally, unique at at a national scale IIRC.

Just a guess: it doesn't align NS-EW? Being oblong but somewhat diagonal, it makes sense perhaps to have a grid that's aligned with the major axes of the landmass. Which is not aligned with compass points.

Good guess; the alignment of the spine of the two islands was the motivation for the type of projection used .. that leaves the what type, why complex, and why rare / unique bits.

Many years back I had the task of writing code for this (and many other types of projections) from first principles to compare against the "official" implementation released by the NZ cartographers .. it's a fun one.

That seems close enough to fraudulent that it might run afoul of some jurisdiction’s laws pertaining to advertising.

I'm running a cutting-edge reverse scam. I aggressively threaten to charge you NZ$1, and then I just give you the product for free

That's choice, bro!

Can you let me name sub-areas? In some places there are unincorporated towns which aren’t showing on the map and aren’t nameable but locals would recognize and like to rename them. My entire county has 1 official city but lots of smaller areas.

I rendered this map from the OSM source with some filters so some locations could be excluded. Anyway, I can manually add any locations. Please write to me via the contact form with a list of locations to add

As a Kiwi this is great

There was an ad built on this conspiracy. :) https://youtu.be/HynsTvRVLiI?si=Qhmm8LSztsXeWyzp

This is my favourite comment on this topic:

"In the 90s I was on the Disappearing Team for the McGillicuddy Serious Party. When we were in power my task was to go around the world erasing New Zealand from all the maps, since if no-one knew we were here, we wouldn't have to spend anything on defense or build annoying tourist traps" (c) RalphNZ

I particularly love all the names containing “Epstein” getting redacted.

Thanks, this is actually a community idea that I liked and added

Not again! (Is it under your bum?)

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