📄️ Mātauranga Māori and GIS
Practical guidance on where GIS can support mātauranga-related mahi, where spatial databases flatten context, and how to keep whakapapa, source relationships, uncertainty and purpose visible.
📄️ Whakapapa and mapping
Practical guidance on using GIS around whakapapa without reducing relationships to database links, exposing whānau information, or treating genealogy as another public spatial layer.
📄️ Decolonising the basemap
How to examine the worldview built into default basemaps and create kaupapa-specific maps that foreground whenua, wai, ingoa wāhi and Māori relationships rather than cadastral and road networks by default.
📄️ Who gets to name a place?
Māori GIS guidance on official, local, historical and hapū or iwi place names, including how to preserve multiple legitimate names and their different authority in spatial data.
📄️ Things GIS cannot represent well
A practical guide to the Māori relationships, knowledge and uncertainty that GIS often flattens, and ways to avoid turning spatial representation into false certainty.