Prepare maps for hui and decisions
A map for hui is not simply the analyst's working map projected onto a larger screen.
Its job is to help people orient, compare, question and decide. That often means showing less information, using familiar places, making uncertainty visible and being ready for the map itself to be corrected or challenged.
A practical route
- Be clear about the decision or kōrero the map needs to support.
- Decide what people need to see and what should stay out of the room or off the shared screen.
- Use familiar reference places before technical overlays.
- Remove layers that do not help the immediate kaupapa.
- Prepare a static fallback if connectivity or software could fail.
- Check labels, scale, dates, legends and source notes before the hui.
- Make space for people to say the representation is wrong, incomplete or inappropriate.
- Record agreed corrections and questions separately from the authoritative source data until they have been checked.
Useful tools and guidance
Let the map be challenged
If someone says a name is wrong, a boundary is misleading or an important relationship is missing, that is not a failure of the hui.
It may be the most useful thing the map has done.