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SpatialThink Lab @spatialThinkLab (instagram)

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SpatialThink Lab @spatialThinkLab (instagram)

@spatialthinklab

@GISTspace / Mairead de Roiste's Spatial Think Lab at Victoria University of Wellington We research maps, spatial thinking, usability & virtual reality

Wellington New Zealand

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Joined January 2022

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SpatialThink Lab @spatialThinkLab (instagram)
@spatialthinklab
Dec 6, 2025
#30DayMapChallenge Day 30: Makeover 🏔️ This is it! Thirty maps in 30 (ahem… 35) days. For today’s prompt I revisited a map I started in the 2024 challenge, when I only managed to complete the coastline. This time, I gave it a proper makeover using the 1:250k LINZ contours
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SpatialThink Lab @spatialThinkLab (instagram)
@spatialthinklab
Dec 4, 2025
#30DayMapChallenge Day 29: Raster🎨 Today is a “paint by numbers” raster grid of soil moisture based on NASA’s SMAP. Shout out if you’d like a copy to “paint” yourself. Soil moisture is a key piece of the flood puzzle: when soils are already saturated, floods can escalate fast.
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SpatialThink Lab @spatialThinkLab (instagram)
@spatialthinklab
Dec 3, 2025
#30DayMapChallenge Day 28 Black ⚫ For today’s prompt I worked entirely in black, letting texture and material determine the map’s form. Three layers come together to depict the buildings, roads and background of Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington’s Kelburn campus.
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SpatialThink Lab @spatialThinkLab (instagram)
@spatialthinklab
Dec 2, 2025
#30DayMapChallenge Day 27: Boundaries 🍮 The Hutt River flood extent in Jello and wafer paper. The coastline is often represented as a hard line on maps, and I played with the idea of rethinking permeable boundaries.
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SpatialThink Lab @spatialThinkLab (instagram)
@spatialthinklab
Dec 1, 2025
#30DayMapChallenge Day 26: Transport 🚣‍♀️ Today’s map charts Wairarapa Moana in beads. Each bead represents 10 sq km. The lake was an important part of pre-colonisation transport for Māori, connecting communities, resources & seasonal movements across the landscape.
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