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.Covid-19 fatality rates – not as bad as you’re being led to believe..
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. However the...
On Your Feet Or On Your Knees – Stand For Something!
..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 inspiration, coinciding as it did with Lemmy's...
Business Counts by Postcode Area Over The Years Since 2011 – Greater Sydney Illustrated Example
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...
Covid-19 Global Cases and Deaths Maps – Updated Daily – up to 14 December 2020 – Free!
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...
Covid-19 Services Update June 2023
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...
Dodgy “postcodes” from big on-line international players
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 their offering (here's a...