Region around Tidal River Wilsons Promontory is a beautiful national park in Victoria, Australia and actually contains the southern most point of the mainland. It is know for its beaches, camping, hiking and generally just being a nice place to visit.  While it is almost impossible to get lost there, I do love a good map and they do come in handy... Background I started making maps when I discovered there was a wealth of data on the data.vic.gov.au site and a friend mentioned needing some maps to go fly fishing. So I downloaded some data and set about putting something together. The first maps were not great, it was rather hard developing layer styles that work well together but it was a good starting point and a proof of concept. Tidal River looking towards Mt Ramsay Not long after that I decided to put together some maps to do the Coast to Coast in England based on UK Ordinance Survey data .  One of the really nice thing about this data is that they also offered styl

I had been looking for a good coding project for a while, to try and build some confidence before I attempted a hackathon, when a friend posted a link to a great map based representation of the  Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey results.  It was a nice clean map that provided a mouse-over pop-up of the yes/no percentage for each electorate which I found it really interesting, but I also wanted some more information.  Information on things like the number of voters, the member holding that seat, the party they are from, what suburbs where in each electorate, and maybe even some census data.  Thus the project was formed. As always, the 80:20 rule was proved true when I got the map up with the basic info the following day, but being a perfectionist (with a small child and a few other project on the go), it has taken me quite a bit longer to show it off but here it is: 2017 Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey - Results Map (The site is hosted on shinyapps.io so hopefully it d