{"id":470899,"date":"2017-12-18T14:37:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T19:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=470899"},"modified":"2017-12-18T14:37:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T19:37:14","slug":"andrew-douglas-cliffords-maps-of-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/12\/andrew-douglas-cliffords-maps-of-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Douglas-Clifford’s Maps of New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Zealand cartographer Andrew Douglas-Clifford<\/a>\u00a0(“The Map Kiwi”) recently\u00a0got profiled by\u00a0The Press<\/em><\/a>, a Christchurch-based newspaper. I’ve been aware of his work for a while; it includes\u00a0some interesting items, like\u00a0a map of state highways in the form of a metro map<\/a>, a series of circle-shaped city maps<\/a> (so-called “map dots”), and, most recently, a map of New Zealand’s uninhabited places<\/a>.\u00a0Prints available via his website<\/a>.\u00a0[WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Zealand cartographer Andrew Douglas-Clifford\u00a0(“The Map Kiwi”) recently\u00a0got profiled by\u00a0The Press, a Christchurch-based newspaper. I’ve been aware of his work for a while; it includes\u00a0some interesting items, like\u00a0a map of state highways in the form… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[54,1051,105],"class_list":["post-470899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","tag-cities","tag-new-zealand","tag-posters","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787093,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/02\/ikea-map-poster-omits-new-zealand\/","url_meta":{"origin":470899,"position":0},"title":"IKEA Map Poster Omits New Zealand","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 February 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"IKEA is apologizing after it was discovered that one of its BJ\u00d6RKSTA world map posters left off New Zealand. 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