Thanks man, glad you like it! It's all open source if you want to have a look? https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/topo

The website works offline too, but I've been playing with making a native wrapper on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nz.topos.twa

Man, that's a sick shot!

Hope it's all good - did mine (pretty mildly) this time last year and it was easily 4 or 5 months before it felt back to normal.

Take it easy!

Hey mate, agree with the sentiment but the analogy is maybe a bit strong.

How'd you pull that off?

Yeah, they left quite a mess - it was pretty clean before. Don't know what they were eating but they left it everywhere. Admittedly the mud is from me :D

Some features it supports:

• measuring distance and drawing tracks
• generating elevation profiles (using the LINZ elevation API)
• automatically caches areas you've viewed for offline use
• viewing mountains and routes from https://climbnz.org.nz/mountains
• viewing doc huts
• live weather (scraped from Metservice)

The source code is available here: https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/topo

Actually, yes. Looked like they ate quite a bit. There were half eaten chocolates all over the car.

Oh yeah, the only empty houses are all the AirBnBs (at my weekly rent every night) or lock'n'leaves. Probably 2/3rds of my street is empty most of the time. Rentals can't be had for love or money, we got lucky with ours at the end of covid.

Hey mate you make some good points, but you're coming across pretty strong here - do you reckon you could tone it down a little: https://lemmy.nz/post/63098

If you feel like a walk, Waimak Falls hut in Arthur's Pass is one of my favorites. It's a bit of a walk to get there though.

Barker Hut, up the other side is also lovely.

Apart from the distance they're both pretty easy to get to.

Alternatively you could head over to the West Coast, Welcome Flat Hut is pretty stunning, and their are natural hot pools which are pretty amazing.

Basically, it just caches anything you've looked at, and nothing else :)

If you try and zoom in further than it has cached data, it'll use a lower res version, if it has one.

Glad to hear they're going to open - Whakapapa in particular has some great skiing - that said, it's kind of crazy they managed to run out of money, they're always packed, and the whole North Island skis there.

Sweet, added! I hadn't seen Aarn packs before, seems like they make some cool stuff!

Also added Small Planet, which I'd somehow forgotten about :D

Did you see the interview from afterwards? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WwUoq6Gdk-g

It downloads the visible area up to a higher zoom level, which should let you zoom/pan around a bit more when your offline

Yeah, it's a tent :D Just a corner of it

Ah yeah, I actually used to used that one too! Mapy.cz is pretty good too, but their topo maps aren't quite as good as the LINZ ones.

Make sure you look at the area you're going to be in (in https://topos.nz) before trying to use it offline, or everything will be really low res.

In this case, it isn't the government spending the money though - it's a lobbying group for the agricultural industry.