Work

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Pocket Maps is New Zealand Walking Access Commission's mobile app. The app contains publicly accessible areas across Aotearoa. The maps are split into regions and can be downloaded for offline use.

I lead the development of the app over an 8-month period. I spearheaded the project by monitoring its progress and ensuring its completion. I also developed the workflow of the data feeding the maps.

Leading Pocket Maps involved communicating with different teams to keep them up to date with the project's progress. To customise certain aspects of the app, I collaborated closely with our GIS partner.

Developing the workflow of the data involved testing and trialing several workflows using model builder.

Summary of tasks:

• Created data workflow
• Created web maps
• Defined offline areas
• Imported maps to feed the app
• Published the app to Android and Apple AppStore

Post implementation, I also provide technical support to our users and collate feedback for the next review of the app.

Download Pocket Maps here:

App Store

Google Play 

A paper I submitted on Pocket Maps was selected to be a user presentation for the 2022 ESRI User Conference held in San Diego, USA.

The presentation details how we managed our data to be fit for purpose - to make our maps available for download by offline users.

Paper Abstract: If you’re a hunter, angler, or hiker being able to access portable maps that show whether you’re entering public or private land is crucial for safety and peace of mind. Maps have been available to view via the Commission’s web browser, but they weren’t able to be downloaded for offline use. The New Zealand Walking Access Commission, a small Government agency who administer a national strategy on outdoor access, set out to create a mobile map application that would allow New Zealanders exploring the outdoors to use maps offline. Pocket Maps is an ArcGIS AppStudio app which enables users to search their location and use the map layers to understand what type of access land they are currently on or looking to hunt, fish or mountain bike through. The challenge was how to package the Commission’s existing map datasets and make them accessible for people to download and take into the field. The data needed to be simplified and made fit for purpose for mobile data on the average phone to provide an enhanced user experience of our maps. The Commission’s objective is that Pocket Maps will help to increase New Zealanders’ understanding when outdoors and enhance their ability to access it.