Standards and Specifications

LINZ produces and maintains topographic standards and specifications used by accredited contractors in the preparation of its products and services.

Some of the documents below can also be found in the Regulatory Interventions, Standards and Guidelines database.

Current Standards and Specifications

• Map and Chart Warehousing (pdf 846KB)
• Map Printing (pdf 151KB)
• TH Specification 117 v1.2 Guide for Field Checking NZTopo Data (pdf 310KB)
• TH Specification 117 v1.4 Guide for Field Checking NZTopo Data (pdf 181KB)
• TH Specification 106 version 1.6 Technical Specification for the Maintenance of NZTopo data (pdf 1.51MB)
• TH Specification 106 version 1.8 Technical Specification for the Maintenance of NZTopo data (pdf 4.81MB)
• NZ Topographic Data Dictionary Version 3.4 (HTML)
• NZ Topographic Data Dictionary Version 3.5 (HTML)
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