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Andrew Tyrrell

@southarrowmaps.co.nz

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🗺🇳🇿🇨🇦🏔 NZ-based cartographer, actually now Canada-based. Blender, QGIS, ArcGIS Pro, Illustrator. Partial to a good mountain. southarrowmaps.co.nz

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Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz · Jun 10

I'm off to #Canada 🍁 and I'm looking for #jobs!

I'm looking for roles in BC/AB in or around #Vancouver / #Calgary / Canadian #Rockies / remote.

Open to anything #GIS & #cartography.
11+ years experience across ArcGIS, QGIS, FME, Adobe, Blender…

Please get in touch if you have any leads!

#gischat

A simple greyscale map showing New Zealand in the lower left, and Canada in the upper right. A large curved arrow leads from the former to the latter

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Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz · 4h

Beyond gutted that I couldn’t make it to #NACIS2025 this year, not only because I’m missing out on seeing some amazing #cartography presentations, but more because I’m missing out on meeting the new mappy friends I made last year!

Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz · 2d

Story of my life…

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 10d

I’ve just finished my full-scale topographical map of the Himalayas and that’s a huge relief, I can tell you

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 22d

New poster! Hachure illustrations of the highest Cascade Range volcanoes. This one took a lot of experimentation to get the layout right. If you or someone you know loves this area, check it out. www.etsy.com/listing/4373...

A black and white illustration titled "Cascade Range Volcanoes," showing a 3 by 3 layout of the nine tallest peaks in the range. The art is done in a hachure sketch style.

A detail image of the illustration of Mount Rainier

A detail image from the poster of Mounts Hood and Jefferson.

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 22d

The Alliance of Freelance Cartographers has a new website! Thanks to @alyolli.bsky.social for getting it off the ground. It hosts past editions of the survey, as well as other resources. www.freelancemaps.org/home

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Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz · Sep 10

I miss having a three-screen 4K setup, but a two-screen 1080 setup that fits in a little laptop bag and runs off a single power socket is pretty neat for my current van-life

Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz · Sep 10

I’m surrounded by stunning, dramatic landscapes, yet I’m sat in Squamish Public Library hand-drawing* a map of Mt Cook…

(*tracing from reference)

A photo of my tiny desk setup in Squamish Library. There’s my laptop, with an image and a QGIS window sharing the screen, and in the foreground is my graphics tablet displaying Adobe Illustrator. I’m poised with the stylus, tracing the historical extent of Haupapa/Tasman Glacier

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Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz · Aug 27

I love the map, the timeline, the debunking of a myth, and the face that the myth even exists.
10/10, would Storrow again

Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · Aug 27

Since Boston is sounding the “don’t drive a truck on Storrow” sirens this week, time to post this map again, now with a timeline.

As far as I can tell, either the messaging works or the idea of students smashing U-Hauls into overpasses is largely a myth. I couldn’t find any real spike in September.

Map showing number and locations of crashes involving vehicles striking overhead bridges or signs on Storrow Drive and Memorial Drive in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz · Aug 24

#MapsInTheWild

Southern Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, and the Juan de Fuca Strait, in a compass in the ground in Victoria, BC

A photo of the centre part of a compass embedded in the ground. The middle has a brass map of the southern part of Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, and the Juan de Fuca Strait.

Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz · Aug 22

My time at #ICC2025 in Vancouver has come to an end.
This morning I was the secondary delegate representing New Zealand at the 20th General Assembly of the International Cartographic Association, voting to approve Warsaw as the hosts of #ICC2027.
Might see you there!

A photo of me sitting at a table behind a sign reading “Nouvelle-Zélande”, as one of the delegates representing New Zealand at the 20th General Assembly of the International Cartographic Association. The two official languages of the ICA are English and French, hence the country name. “New Zealand” is written on the other side.

A photo from my point of view of the General Assembly, showing the country name card “New Zealand”, with many other rows of delegates

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Kenneth Field @kennethfield.bsky.social · Aug 21

The Indonesians have brought their spectacularly talented kids to #ICC2025 again. Yes, this is my biennial sarcastic children's map competition post. Four. Years. Old... FOUR!!! Do me a favour 🤦🤣🤣🤦🤣

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Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz · Aug 21

The Belgian ones are dark…

A map from the 2025 Children’s Map Competition, showing the world covered in smoke-emitting factories/nuclear reactors, with the title “DO SMTHG” and the text “THE WORLD WILL FALL APART”

A map from the 2025 Children’s Map Competition, showing the world split diagonally from SW to NE. The SE half shows green vegetation, and land and marine animals. The NW half is bare and desolate, with deforestation and pollution, and an image of Trump whistling, Putin holding a gun, and Zelenskyy hiding behind an EU flag. The title is “Roll out the fallout”

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Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz · Aug 21

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A photo of a slide from a presentation. Against a white background is the title “ICC2025: Rainbow color scheme”, below which is a rainbow colour scheme.

Andrew Tyrrell @southarrowmaps.co.nz · Aug 20

At this scale you can basically see @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social’s garden shed office