NZ Elevation Tools Explore New Zealand’s landscape in remarkable detail. NZ Elevation Tools turns LINZ elevation and LiDAR data into practical terrain information directly in your browser. Select a property or area to generate contour lines, check slope and aspect, explore drainage and viewsheds, create elevation profiles, or even export terrain for GIS, CAD and 3D printing. It’s especially useful for landowners, builders, farmers, outdoor enthusiasts and anyone curious about the shape of the land beneath their feet — and the core tools are free with no account required
Geo Hound Ever looked at an online map and wondered where the actual GIS data behind it comes from? Geo Hound finds it for you. This Chrome and Edge extension detects GIS services and geospatial files as you browse, saving the URLs, layers and metadata that normally require digging through browser developer tools to uncover. From there, you can open the data in its browser-based GIS workbench to filter, analyse, style and export it — or use the built-in assistant to ask spatial questions in plain English. It’s a clever shortcut for GIS professionals, researchers, journalists, consultants and curious map users who want to get beyond the map and into the data behind it.
SmartQueryTools A powerful collection of data-processing tools that works entirely inside your browser. SmartQueryTools makes it easy to convert, clean, inspect and reshape files such as CSV, Excel, Parquet, JSON, TSV, YAML and Apache Arrow without installing software or writing a script. You can deduplicate and filter data, merge files, build pivot tables, profile datasets, convert between formats, or even load multiple files and query them directly using SQL. The particularly appealing part is privacy: processing happens locally on your device, so your files are never uploaded to a server. It’s a seriously useful toolbox for analysts, developers and anyone who regularly finds themselves wrestling with messy data exports.
Folding Globes Turn real geographic and scientific data into a world you can hold in your hands. Folding Globes offers beautifully designed printable globes that you download, cut, fold and glue into three-dimensional models. You can build Earth from space, planets and moons, or data-driven globes showing earthquakes, volcanoes, tectonic plates, meteorites and more. There are multiple folding shapes — from a simple cube to an icosahedron or near-spherical globe — plus a builder for creating personalised versions with your own places highlighted. Geography, cartography, science and paper craft all meet in one wonderfully tactile project.
QuickMapTools A huge toolbox for working with maps and geospatial data without installing GIS software. QuickMapTools brings more than a thousand GIS utilities into the browser, covering everything from converting Shapefiles, GeoJSON, KML and GPX files to reprojection, buffering, clipping, measuring, raster processing and visualisation. It even includes tools for downloading OpenStreetMap data, satellite imagery and global geographic datasets. Much of the processing happens locally on your device, making it an unusually convenient place to solve those small-but-annoying GIS jobs quickly.
Plan a New Zealand hunting trip with the map, species knowledge and local information all in one place. Hunting NZ is a practical guide for hunters exploring New Zealand’s public land, combining an interactive terrain map with information on hunting blocks, tracks, aerial imagery, pest-control operations and where different game species are found. Dig into detailed guides for red deer, tahr, chamois, wapiti and other major species, explore hunting regions around the country, or use the hunting calendar to see approximate rut periods and seasonal conditions. There’s also useful guidance on permits, hunting ballots and access, making it a great starting point whether you’re planning your first NZ hunt or looking for somewhere new to explore
