Belinda Smith Lyttle

Belinda Smith Lyttle is credited with digital capture for GNS Science’s 1:1 million Geological Map of New Zealand, alongside the map’s geological compilers and GIS cartographer.

Mark Rattenbury and Mike Isaac's project history names Philip Carthew, Greg Drummond, David Heron, Biljana Lukovic, Jeff Lyall, Ben Morrison, Penny Murray and Belinda Smith Lyttle among those providing text production, GIS and cartography. Universities supplied thesis and unpublished mapping, while NIWA supplied offshore data. Digital image products were being released from 2004 and vector GIS products from 2006. By 2012 QMAP data could also be consumed through web map services, so a programme conceived as a national map series had become a reusable national data service.