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AAMHatch produced Wellington’s textured 3D city model in 2009, combining aerial imagery with a three-dimensional representation of the built environment. AAM’s New Zealand work als…
Aamir Bonamis worked on New Zealand Police’s ArcGIS Enterprise implementation in 2021 and co-presented the Police Geospatial Team’s FME case study in 2023. The presentation covered…
Aaria Dobson-Waitere developed GIS skills through conservation and mana whenua work in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. In 2017 she was the only New Zealand recipient among 15 Society for Cons…
Abley’s company history gives two starting points. In 1996, Steve Abley’s final-year university project mapped Christchurch City pedestrian crossings for the city council; a transp…
Nige Sheed and Jamie Burmeister established Adapt Solutions in 2007 after working together on a water-billing implementation in Auckland. Sheed’s earlier work at Timaru District Co…
Adrian Patchett’s geospatial record spans iwi cultural mapping and later statistical geography. A 2019 Geospatial Research Institute seminar named Patchett and Sean Bragg presentin…
Aerial Surveys’ predecessors included GeoSmart and earlier aerial-photography and mapping businesses. The company produced photogrammetric mapping, digital imagery and later airbor…
AgVice used GIS, digital farm plans, drones and web mapping in farm-environment and catchment work. Eagle’s Wai Kōkopu material documents ArcGIS, StoryMaps and Experience Builder i…
Alaina Dalzell of Transpower presented a 2017 conference lightning talk on improving data quality by georeferencing substation assets. The example puts a named practitioner behind …
A LINZ geospatial student or graduate profile records Alan Scandrett: University of Auckland Geography Honours; LINZ 2016/17 and Watercare 2017/18 summer internships.
At GeoComputation '97 and SIRC '97 in Dunedin, Alan Thorn, Terry Daniel and Brian Orland described using GIS data to visualise New Zealand plantation-forest management scenarios. A…
Bruce McLennan, Albert Chong and Martin Purvis described the Taiaroa Head GPS survey for the northern royal albatross project at the 1994 Spatial Information Research Centre colloq…
Aleksandra Lukovic is credited with digital capture for GNS Science’s 1:1 million Geological Map of New Zealand, alongside the map’s geological compilers and GIS cartographer.
A LINZ geospatial student or graduate profile records Alex Pasco: Geospatial Data Administrator, New Zealand Defence Force; University of Otago MAppSc GIS.
ALGIM brought local-government information practitioners together across technology and information management. Its history traces roots to the ITMG in 1975 and the formal establis…
Alysia Barnes of the Ministry for Primary Industries presented the use of Survey123 for monitoring kauri dieback at the 2017 New Zealand Esri User Conference. The case is a named e…
Amanda MacDonald-Creevey was a GIS Analyst with Rayonier Matariki Forests when she presented the application of Sentinel-2 satellite data in forestry at the 2018 New Zealand Esri U…
A LINZ geospatial student or graduate profile records Amit Kokje: Senior Specialist (Geospatial Platform and Support), Auckland Council; previously Auckland Transport and Tauranga …
Women in Spatial + Survey’s committee biography describes Amy Tay’s geospatial consulting on transport and infrastructure projects at Aurecon, including GIS services, FME, data tra…
Ana Krpo's 2004 Auckland University of Technology master's research developed a GIS model for runoff and contaminant loads in the Puhinui catchment, Manukau. The research used mapp…
LINZ and the Geospatial Capability Committee included Anataia van Leeuwen in the Leaving School geospatial career-profile series: Environmental Consultant, Tonkin + Taylor, October…
LINZ and the Geospatial Capability Committee included Andrew Douglas-Clifford in the Leaving School geospatial career-profile series: Cartographer & Geospatial Analyst, Tonkin + Ta…
Andrew Dunningham and S. Thompson published “Use of geographic information systems in New Zealand forestry applications” in the Commonwealth Forestry Review. Their paper described …
Andrew Ferrel appears in LINZ’s imagery and elevation work. LINZ’s 2014 Geospatial for Schools archive names him as National Imagery Manager, and the 2018 New Zealand Esri User Con…
Andrew Hare dates the beginning of his GIS career to 1996, when he worked in Brisbane for a marketing company. In his March 2025 career account he described twenty-nine years in th…
As the minister responsible for the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act, Andrew Little welcomed the public launch of Kōrero Takutai on 11 December 2019. The government rele…
Andrew Marr co-authored Local government GIS in New Zealand with George Benwell, published as a University of Otago working paper in 1995. The paper provides a contemporary researc…
John Thyne, Byron Cochrane and Richard Wells had stood down; Derrick Williams, Andrew Shakes, Nenad Petrovic and Kurt Janssen were nominated and elected unopposed, while Marie Slak…
Andrew Smith is acknowledged for the Wellington Regional Council wildfire study and digital data supplied to a Chilton Saint James School vegetation-fire project. The February 2001…
Andrew Steffert described Horizons’ floodplain mapping and LiDAR programme, including its development after the 2004 floods.
Technical correspondence described GeoServer and OpenLayers use by 2009, and Andrew Watkins’s work with GeoNetwork in 2010.
Andy Gilmour co-authored the 2008 chapter Developing Geographical Information Systems and Crime Mapping Tools in New Zealand with Jill Barclay. The publisher identifies a New Zeala…
DOC profiled Ann De Schutter in 2015 as a Christchurch Geospatial Analyst supporting mapping, spatial analysis, 1080 projects, application training and GPS/GIS support. She later p…
At the May 2002 launch of the New Zealand Public Health Observatory, Health Minister Annette King described the Ministry of Health as having started to combine GIS and the Internet…
Contemporary Landonline papers by Tony Bevin, Anselm Haanen and Neil Sutherland describe a system designed around digital submission, automated validation and closer integration of…
Anya Duxfield of Far North District Council presented the use of ArcGIS Online for community engagement in district planning at the 2017 New Zealand Esri User Conference. The examp…
Christchurch-based ARANZ Geo developed Leapfrog, 3D geological modelling software used in mining and minerals work. In 2017 the company adopted the Seequent name as its activity ex…
Terralink’s 4 March 2004 announcement names Ashburton District Council as a participant in the shared South Island orthophoto acquisition. The release describes regional imagery fo…
Ashley Dunstan of Hastings District Council co-presented the GIS response to the Havelock North water-contamination incident at the 2017 New Zealand Esri User Conference. The prese…
George Perry, Ashley Sparrow and Ian Owens later reported overall predictive accuracy of about 80 per cent, with high-wind conditions among the places where the model struggled. Th…
AsureQuality’s AgriBase is a maintained spatial database of New Zealand farms and rural properties. Public company and MPI material shows the dataset and its GIS staff being used i…
Aubrey Miller is a University of Otago geospatial educator and practitioner. Otago identifies him as a Senior Professional Practice Fellow teaching GIS, spatial analysis, programmi…
Auckland Council began operating on 1 November 2010. Its four-year Geospatial Future Mode of Operation programme consolidated systems and data inherited from the former councils. I…
Auckland Council began operating on 1 November 2010, inheriting geospatial systems, data and working practices from the former Auckland authorities. Its four-year Geospatial Future…
Auckland Regional Council initiated the Auckland Engineering Lifelines Project in 1996.
Aurecon appears in the New Zealand GIS practitioner record through spatial tools used for infrastructure and engagement. James Sturman’s 2019 conference presentation used StoryMaps…
B. Robertson wrote Hastings District Council’s 1999 paper on predicting and mapping fire spread. A 2009 Scion review cites that paper in its account of Firesim, a GenaMap applicati…
Barbara Höck and Tim Payn, working with J. W. Shirley of Forestry Corporation, had 1,643 forest compartment boundaries in digital form and imported them into ARC/INFO. The compartm…
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Beca developed a substantial GIS practice within its wider New Zealand engineering and advisory business. Its GIS services include spatial analysis, field assessment tools, data ma…
Belinda Smith Lyttle is credited with digital capture for GNS Science’s 1:1 million Geological Map of New Zealand, alongside the map’s geological compilers and GIS cartographer.
Mark Rattenbury and Mike Isaac's project history names Philip Carthew, Greg Drummond, David Heron, Biljana Lukovic, Jeff Lyall, Ben Morrison, Penny Murray and Belinda Smith Lyttle …
Beryl Pimblott co-founded Explorer Graphics with David Pimblott in 1987. NorthSouth GIS’s company history credits the Pimblotts and Daniel Elroi with the international collaboratio…
At the 2019 New Zealand Esri User Conference, Beth-Anne Lee co-presented Eagle Technology sessions on ArcGIS field apps, including QuickCapture, Survey123 and Collector. An MSD cas…
Mark Rattenbury and Mike Isaac's project history names Philip Carthew, Greg Drummond, David Heron, Biljana Lukovic, Jeff Lyall, Ben Morrison, Penny Murray and Belinda Smith Lyttle …
Bill Risk was a Topoclimate South Project co-author of the 2000 paper on accumulated heat and pasture growth.
A later technical account by Geoff Howard, Robin Pickering, Dave Mole and Peter Woodsford records that Surveyor-General Bill Robertson approved a business case around 1987 to conve…
In the northern autumn of 1994, John McCombs and Colorado GIS practitioner Bill Thoen established MapInfo-L on Colorado SuperNet as a free international forum. Thoen later recalled…
Esther Baumann used Black Box Spatial’s affiliation in GISList correspondence during 2010–11. She shared advice on mountain-range labels and annotation, and sought ArcScene symbols…