Story: Modern mapping and surveying

More links and websites

• ANZMapS

  The website of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society, for map producers, users and curators.

• The bird's-eye view — how aerial photography is speeding-up the surveying of the Dominion

  A 1940 article by Ronald McIntosh, from New Zealand Railways Magazine.

• Land Information New Zealand

  Land Information New Zealand is the government department responsible for survey systems and topographical information.

• New Zealand Cartographic Society

  The New Zealand Cartographic Society promotes the development of cartography.

• New Zealand Institute of Surveyors

  The website of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors.

More suggestions and sources

• Blick, G. H. Where in the world are we?: a technical guide to datums and projections in New Zealand: version 2. Wellington: Land Information New Zealand, 2007.
• Conly, Geoff. Piet’s eye in the sky: the story of NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd. Wellington: Grantham House, 1986.
• Jupp, Graeme. NZMS 260 and 262: our metric topographical heritage. Auckland: New Zealand Cartographic Society, 2011.
• Lee, L. P. First-order, geodetic triangulation of New Zealand, 1909–49; 1973–74. Wellington: Department of Lands and Survey, 1978.
• Marshall, Brian. From sextants to satellites: a cartographic timeline for New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Map Society, 2005.
• Stephens, Peter, Piet van Asch, and Mairi Clark. No clouds today. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1991.