📄️ Starting an iwi or hapū GIS from nothing
A practical 30-day, 90-day and one-year pathway for iwi and hapū starting GIS with limited money, limited staff and scattered existing information.
📄️ What should an iwi GIS actually contain?
A staged, practical model for deciding what an iwi GIS should contain, from a small core of trusted layers through to mature governance, field and publishing capability.
📄️ GIS for a small hapū
A deliberately small GIS model for hapū with limited funding and technical capacity, using local files, QGIS, simple backups, paper maps and controlled knowledge.
📄️ The one-person GIS
How to run a Māori GIS safely when one person does most of the work, without allowing accounts, knowledge, data or operational continuity to depend on that person forever.
📄️ GIS succession
Practical guidance for transferring Māori GIS capability, relationships, accounts, data provenance and tikanga when staff, contractors or volunteers change.
📄️ GIS on the marae
A practical way to run mapping hui and wānanga on the marae using printed maps, local imagery, annotation and careful follow-up without making technology the centre of the room.
📄️ Paper maps still matter
Why printed maps remain valuable for hui, marae, fieldwork and emergencies, and how to manage mark-ups, versions and sensitive information safely.