by Graeme | Aug 31, 2023 | Uncategorised |
With our cities, towns and suburbs groaning under burgeoning demand for accommodation, fueled by the immigration Ponzi scheme of our short-term, short-sighted career politicians and bureaucrats, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the consequent urban sprawl causes...
by Graeme | Aug 21, 2023 | Uncategorised |
Not only are grocery prices going through the roof – thanks to barmy government policies guided by self-serving “experts” and feckless bureaucrats aboard the express climate change gravy train – they’re adding insult to injury by giving...
by Graeme | Jun 18, 2023 | Uncategorised |
Who knows who decides whether these should be assigned to Postcode X or Postcode Y, especially when close to an existing postcode boundary? Some would claim there’s still “postcode prejudice”. Anyone’s guess what “sweeteners” may...
by Graeme | Feb 16, 2023 | Uncategorised |
On 16 December 2022, the ABS released the latest Business Count data. The Mapmakers team have again analysed the indigestible mass of numbers using their leading edge spatial analytics, turning them into insightful graphics like this update for Northern Tasmania. See...
by Graeme | Sep 8, 2022 | Uncategorised |
On August 24th 2021, the ABS released the latest Business Count data. The Mapmakers team have analysed the indigestible mass of numbers using their leading edge spatial analytics, turning them into insightful graphics like this update for Northern Tasmania. See the...
by Graeme | Sep 8, 2022 | Uncategorised |
On 16 February 2021, the ABS released the latest Business Count data. The Mapmakers team have analysed the indigestible mass of numbers using their leading edge spatial analytics, turning them into insightful graphics like this update for Northern Tasmania. See the...
by Graeme | Sep 6, 2022 | Uncategorised |
September 2022. Owing to pandemic measures from March 2020, we have delayed posting further business count updates to our long running series until 2023. With so many small and medium enterprises failing and many of those remaining struggling to return to...
by Graeme | Sep 2, 2022 | Uncategorised |
Our post using data from the 2016 Census is here and can be used for comparison! These illustrations show the 2021 data using the same heat map styles and colour ranges to help identify rates and extent of changes. There is a striking decrease in the percentage...
by Graeme | Nov 19, 2021 | Uncategorised |
We are planning a tour of remote and outback Australia during the cooler months of 2023. We will be providing introductory talks and hands-on “how do I do that for my property?” demonstrations and training sessions. We intend these to be informal, friendly...
by Graeme | Aug 6, 2021 | Uncategorised |
Getting our there to maintain the assets of busy working people is a fertile – and potentially lucrative – area for the service sector, either directly or on a franchise model basis. We’re increasingly being asked whether we can help quantify the...
by Graeme | Apr 25, 2021 | Uncategorised |
Introduction While our postcode area based products have always captured Australian localities including urban areas typically to street centre precision, only recently has the national address database been made freely available. This sensible liberation of taxpayer...
by Graeme | Dec 14, 2020 | Uncategorised |
Update June 2021. The data underpinning our C-19 map series has been collated and made available free of charge by the European Union (references and URLs on the map – just click the main map thumbnail below), for which we and you have been very grateful....
by Graeme | Jul 8, 2020 | Uncategorised |
..Standing, of course! Like the stonking opener of Motorhead’s 1993 masterwork “Bastards”, almost twenty years after Blue Oyster Cult’s classic first live album – “On Your Feet Or On Your Knees” and perhaps the song’s...
by Graeme | Apr 9, 2020 | Uncategorised |
February 2023. Latest updates from June 2022 data release added to the end of this post! Because of the impact of pandemic measures on the economy, we have posted the business counts for Lockdown Year 2021 separately. The following maps show the mixed fortunes of the...
by Graeme | Apr 5, 2020 | Uncategorised |
Update 20 December 2020. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) ceased collation and publication of daily Covid-19 case and death data on 14 December 2020. Consequently we are unable to produced further daily map updates. This post and the...
by Graeme | Mar 19, 2020 | Uncategorised |
Our operating base is located in Tasmania. Like you, we have struggled to stay abreast of the various travel and associated restrictions from March 2020. Currently (June 2023) there aren’t any travel restrictions in place, but please if you wish to book software...
by Graeme | Feb 26, 2020 | Uncategorised |
We encountered Mapline recently, big claim to be “THE EASIEST MAPPING SOFTWARE ON THE PLANET”. We looked at what they might be offering here in Australia – obviously we pride ourselves on our postcode products here at MapMakers’ so sought out...
by Graeme | Nov 8, 2019 | Uncategorised |
We’re pleased to release two new standard Australian territory / PMA large format (A0) digital PDF maps. Based on the most recent postal area 2016 Census population data. These products group postal areas within each state and territory into sales or marketing...
by Graeme | Mar 18, 2019 | Uncategorised |
On February 21st 2020, the ABS released the latest Business Count data. The Mapmakers team have analysed the indigestible mass of numbers using their leading edge spatial analytics, turning them into insightful graphics like this update for Northern Tasmania. See the...
by Graeme | Nov 1, 2018 | Uncategorised |
If simply adding a free Google Maps API in your site isn’t sufficient, we can customise a web mapping app tailored to your needs, it’s a question we get asked more and more. However everyone’s requirements are different. This post is a simple first...
by Graeme | Aug 8, 2018 | Uncategorised |
There are some common reasons why you might want a map which is larger than even a big poster-size page, for example: You have a wall in the office and you want to cover it with a physical printed map of your operating area. Your area of interest is large...