The Electoral Index to Places and Streets

What's available

• Search Places Index
• Search Streets Index
• Search Instructions
• Published Index to Places and Streets. Available for purchase from Bennetts Government Bookshop, Lambton Quay (P O Box 5334), Wellington for $65.60 incl GST.
• Download a digital printout of the Index to Places & Streets (zip file 1.0MB approx).
• Download ASP database tables, exported as a pipe delimited files (zip file 5.5MB approx).
• ASP Database Documentation (zip file 400KB).
• Sample Access database (zip file 600KB) - MS Access 2002 mdb.
  

In the database you can find:

• An up-to-date and nationwide listing of street names, and place names that may potentially be used as part of an address, referenced against the Territorial Authority and Electorates in which they exist.
• House number ranges or textual descriptions defining the extents of split streets (where a street exists in more than one General or Maori Electorate).
• A map reference and nearby place name to assist in their location.
• Historic records of former names (since late 1992).
• A unique and static identifier for every recorded street & place name.

LINZ's Role

The main role of the Index is to assist electoral returning officers when registering special votes on election day, i.e. votes cast by electors in a polling booth located outside of their electorate (or overseas). The address provided by an elector is matched against the Index to identify the correct electorate, and then special voting papers are issued to the voter for that electorate.

Land Information New Zealand does this by maintaining an up-to-date Authoritative Streets and Places Database (ASP) from which it generates the "Index to Places and Streets". The database is maintained on a daily basis so that the Index can be published at short notice.

LINZ provides:

• the published Index to Places and Streets
• access to the data by the public (this page).