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September 11th, 2011
New Zealand Topographic Map

Land Information of New Zealand has made available a great set of 1:50,000 scale Topographic Maps. I downloaded all 455 of the maps covering the main island of New Zealand and coverted them to a seamless Google Earth overlay. The quality and resolution of the source images has been retained, so they might load a bit slow. And it might take 30 seconds to a minute for them to load the first time you use them due to the size of this map overlay.  I could increase the performance, but that would result in lower image quality.  Please let me know if you have any problems as I’m not sure how well this will work on low end computers with slow internet connections. Read More