Maps

Nathan Ruser from Sydney is an amateur mapper and founding member of the Institute of United Conflict Analysts who monitor a number of conflicts, especially Syria and Iraq, from their homes. Their… Audio

When we think of Katherine Mansfield, we tend not to think of her as a good, keen, outdoors-woman. Rather more Bloomsbury than Barry Crump. But a camping trip into the Ureweras in 1907 had a lasting… Audio

Outdoorsman and adventurer Kennedy Warne discusses cartographic curiosities, including a map that shows where would you end up if you drilled straight through the earth from your back yard. Audio

Julie Sweetkind-Singer from Stanford University works at the intersection of the analog paper map, and new digital mapping technology. Audio

It's an atlas of epic proportions. In fact, it is one of the largest in the world and Wellington now has its own copy. The book measures 1.8 metres by 1.4m, weighs 150 kilograms and it will now call… Audio

At a time when Google Maps Street View can take you on a virtual tour of Yosemite's remotest trails and cell phones double as navigational systems, it's hard to imagine there's any uncharted ground… Audio

Lori Montgomery of The Washington Post on why the maps in Alaska are so bad, and what's being done about it. Audio

Geodesy is the study of the shape and size of the earth, and it underpins systems such as the Global Navigation Satellite System and allows very accurate surveying of major infrastructure projects Audio

Landcare Research scientists are using mobile spectroscopy to analyse soil, allowing geostatisticians to create better soil maps Audio

Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London and author of 'A History of the World in 12 Maps', which studies maps that crystallised world-views or changed… Audio

A hero of the Gallipoli Campaign, Sapper Horace Moore-Jones is best known for his painting "The Man with the Donkey", will be remembered in Hamilton tomorrow when the city honours a man whose heroics… Audio

Auckland has been re-imagined many times over in the last 200 years. Many of the region's maps are now held in the Auckland Museum Library's collection. Lisa Thompson visited the exhibition "You Are… Audio