Welcome to MapMakers Latest News
This is where we'll announce the most recent additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's changed, take a look here first.Northern Tasmania – Business Confidence 2021 Update
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...
Australian Business Sector Impacted By Government Covid Restrictions – Business Counts for Lockdown Year 2021
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...
How the world’s three biggest faith groups are changing – 2021 Census by postcode NSW / ACT and Tasmania
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...
Outback Digital Property Mapping – Free Courses Tour 2023
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 and...
Solar Panels and Swimming Pools – Where and How Many? We Can Tell You!
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 potential market for...
Address-accurate Postcode Areas – Only From MapMakers Australia!
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...