July 31, 2025
A View from the Tops
A weekend walk gets us thinking about the tramping season. A walk up The Monument Track to Te Ahu Pātiki (Mt Herbert) over the weekend got me thinking about the up and coming tramping season. The family has the Heaphy Track planned for September so this was a bit of a warm up. One of […]
July 17, 2025
Degrees of Distance
When measuring distance it pays to be aware of which coordinate system your data are using. Hot off a discussion of coordinate systems and map projections in the GIS courses, I was reminded of something that threw me for a loop with some of the global scale analysis we’ve been doing lately. This one was […]
