LINZ Annual Report 2009/10

Land Information New Zealand’s (LINZ) Annual Report for 2009/10 was tabled in Parliament today.

The Annual Report is a public accountability document published annually, which details LINZ’s performance against its stated outcomes and strategic objectives for the previous financial year.

Highlights from the Annual Report include:

• Setting foundations for increasing the use of geospatial information and reducing barriers to productivity-related benefits that geospatial information use presents. This has included working closely with the geospatial sector, formalising a geospatial metadata standard, and establishing a New Zealand node of the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information.
• ‘Walking the talk’ with our own geospatial datasets by putting in place a strategy for delivering the products and services our clients want, and improving our survey and title data. We also showed innovation in the use of our own data, with the rollout of our new topographic map series.
• Supporting the Government to develop a new strategic approach for Crown pastoral land in the South Island high country that strikes a balance between economic use of the land and environmental and cultural values.
• Improving the effectiveness of our annual biosecurity programme to ensure we mitigate, as much as possible, the impacts pests can have on economic returns on Crown land.
• Rationalising our regulatory standards to ensure regulation strikes the right balance between appropriately managing the risks of property rights and reducing compliance costs on businesses.

You can read the 2009/10 Annual Report or download a printable version (PDF 614KB).