About
Maps of the places that made you.
Contour started with a simple frustration: the map of the mountain you climbed shouldn’t look like every other poster. The summit that took you all day deserves better than a stock print.
So we build each one from the ground truth. We pull New Zealand’s open elevation data, the same LiDAR and DEM surveys used by surveyors and search-and-rescue, and render the contours and hillshade ourselves, at print resolution. No upscaled screenshots. No generic tiles.
And not every place that made you is a mountain. Streets mode draws your suburb from LINZ’s national survey, every building footprint and every road in its proper weight. For the towns that climb, Both mode lays the streets over the contours, one print, the whole story.
Then we make it yours: your route traced over the terrain, your words in the title block, your coordinates in the margin, in a finish that suits your wall.
A Contour isn’t a picture of a place. It’s the shape of it.
Real data
Toitū Te Whenua LINZ elevation surveys, not renders of renders.
Made here
Designed, rendered and printed in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
Built to last
Archival pigment inks on heavyweight archival matte, checked by hand before it ships.
Any place
Terrain for the hills, Streets for the flat, Both for the towns that climb. All of Aotearoa is on the table.
Honest sizes
A3 $89 and A2 $129. Standard sheets, so off-the-shelf frames fit.
A real person
Rolled and posted in a tube, free NZ shipping. Questions get answered by the person who rendered your map.
Rather see finished work first? Browse the gallery, or gift a voucher and let them design their own.
43.53° S / 172.64° E · Ōtautahi · Aotearoa New Zealand