kei te kimi noa!

Brother, i need some assistance and guidance for part of my PhD - this particular part is to do with Converting an Oral Tradition into a Spatial Tradition. In essence, i want to look at the components that make up moteatea and convert those components into spatial assets, thus providing me with a means of being able to represent that information onto a map/GIS! This will then allow me to see how the ancestral landscape was clothed using moteatea! I will then develop a series of MAPS - CULTURAL MAPS.

This part is the actual ngako of the entire thesis!

I will look towards creating a TEMPLATE for developing a series of LAYERS that will make up a series of CULTURAL MAPS:- as part of the Maps i will need to:

1. Develop or design a set of unique cultural icons, symbols or lines & shapes to represent these components
2. Look at ways of representing boundaries of "culturally significant areas" - [perhaps unique shapes, polygons]
   
3. Identify the significant layers of information & develop templates for each layer
4. Design a map legend that is appropriate to the information
   
5. Create a series of 'map biographies' that represent the korero in the moteatea
   
6. Find a way to represent/store the metaphors used in moteatea
7. Design a Map that appropriately represents the oral traditions that clothed the ancestral landscape
   

Naaku noa
H24