MapsPast website - maps wanted!

Historical maps wanted! Now that the functionality is there in the mapspast website for individual maps sheets to be uploaded to the site using just the web interface, I'm on the prowl for old maps to add. I've got a few maps uploaded: - NZMS274/5 (Guide to the Ruahine State Forest Park, 1984) - NZMS274/2 (Guide to the Tararua State Forest Park, 1982) - NZMS57 Map of the Tararua Mountain system (1963) - Girdlestones Track (1927) But I'd like from you: - Suggestions of maps that should get uploaded (whether you know where to find them or not) - Any digital copies you may have or know of of said maps. - Suggestions of places that will allow me to use their BIG flatbed scanners to scan any paper copies I can get my hands on. Meanwhile, if you go to the mapspast.org.nz and look under 'mapsheets' you'll see a list of the individual sheets that are there so far (in addition to the nationwide map-series coverage you see in the layer picker box).

This is so cool, Madpom. I love checking out the old tracks and huts. We found a tourist map of Stewart Island that had the old Freshwater track marked on it. We were able to use this to stay on the track from near the Freshwater Hut to the hut site of Benson's Peak and beyond to Big Hellfire Hut. Now I see how some of the mysteries of old bivs and huts have been solved recently e.g. the bivs near Peverill Pk and Camp/Boundary Saddle that have disappeared or been relocated. Just looking at the old Stewart Island maps alone, it's amazing to see all the information about old huts and tracks e.g. on the Freshwater by Thompson's Ridge at Moonlight Point and from North Arm going up to the tops. There was even a hut on the ridge west of Mt Anglem.

Hi Madpom, I haven't seen the site yet but do you have the 1951, 1.6 miles to 1 inch Lands & Survey map of the Ruahines with the tracks and huts on it? A hunter who shot the eastern Ruahines back then gave me the map. If you don't already have this map I could make a copy available.

I have a 1950 map of the Tararuas you can use

Madpom, that looks like the Tararua map I sent you some time back. Have had a quick skim through some of my archives, would any of the following be of use. NZMS 1 Series 1:63360 1Inch to 1 Mile NZ Topographical Arapuni Sheet N75 2nd Edition 1967 Rotorua Sheet N76 1st Edition 1952 Palliser Sheets N168/169 1st Edition 1953 NZMS 10A Series 1:253440 4 Mile to 1 Inch NZ Territorial Series No Titles as such. Sheet 28 6th Edition 1 Jan 1966 Covers Aspiring/Hollyford/Ohau/Whakatipu Sheet 19 5th Edition 1 Nov 1963 Covers Nelson/ Buller/Murchison/Awatere Sheet No’s. 20/21 5th Edition 1 April 1963 Covers Wellington/Palliser/ Portion of Sounds Marlborough. Odd ones out. NZ Topographical 1:250000 NZMS 262 Sheet 4 Waikato 1st Edition 1983 NZMS 170 1:100000 Urewera 3rd Edition 1971 NZMS 122 1:300000 Fiordland National Park 4th Edition 1968, Reprinted 1973 If any of this is of interest I will hunt up somewhere to get them scanned and forward file on. What sort of format/resolution would you want the files in.

Madpom Have got digital versions of Wellington tramping country 1946 Mt Hector track 1924 Tararua 1933 L&S Tararua 1936 L & S Tararua 1946 L&S Tararua nzfs/DOC park maps 1950, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1982, 1985, 1988, 2006 I'd have to check if Ok to be published, probably is

@tararuahunter - thanks, have sent you a PM @glennj, @frankb, @robertbrown - are those digital (downloaded / scanned) copies or paper copies you have? The digital copies I'm interested in right now so if you have digital ones send me an address by Personal Messaging on this site (or at mapspast.org.nz) and I'll send you a flash drive. Or give me a URL if you have them online. All the NZMS1 and NZMS260 maps series I have on the site already. So it's the obscure one-off maps like park maps and limited series that I'm trying to identify. With regard to paper copies I'm researching how/where to scan A1 documents, so for now am just compiling a list of what interesting mapsheets exist. If I can scan at any of the libraries (Victoria, Massey, NatLib, etc) , I'll see what I can locate in their collections of unfolded map sheets and scan on-site. For those obscure maps which I can't locate, I may get back to you.

The one I mentioned is a paper map not digital.

I only have paper copies. I think I have a couple of contacts that may be able to scan A1. I will check.

I can access a heap of South Island ones but have to find out about A1 scanning down here. Maybe medical illustrations at work have some ideas. It's all for a good cause, after all.