About Landonline

Landonline is New Zealand's database for land title and survey information.

Designed for land professionals

Landonline's online service enables surveyors, lawyers and other land professionals (including Territorial Authorities) to search and lodge title dealings and survey data digitally. A licence must be purchased to use Landonline services. Land professionals can find out more on the Landonline website.

Not a land professional?

If you are a private individual and require a copy of a land record, you can order a copy of a land title, plan or other land record without using Landonline.

Landonline data

Landonline integrates New Zealand's geodetic, cadastral, and land titles data. Find out about Landonline Bulk Data Extracts and how to download geodetic mark data.

Building Landonline

In 1995 work began on the Survey and Title Automation Strategy, which proposed to automate the nation's survey and land title systems. In 1996 the Government instructed the then newly-formed LINZ to design the information systems required to build the application. In February 1998 the Government approved the proposed application and building began.

Data conversion projects were undertaken to populate the base data for Landonline. The land title conversion project converted more than 1.8 million live titles to electronic files, and a scanned a further 1.3 million cancelled titles. The former Digital Cadastral Database (DCDB) was progressively converted to Landonline, land district by land district between 2000 and 2002. The survey conversion project scanned survey plans and converted them to 1.4 million electronic files. Additionally, boundary dimensions for a total of 1.4 million parcels were captured from around 300,000 surveys. This involved the capture of some 13 million observations and the adjustment of five million geodetic survey marks.

Landonline legislation

The Land Transfer (Computer Registers and Electronic Lodgement) Amendment Act 2002 set the stage for electronic lodgement of dealings in New Zealand. In February 2006 the Government announced that 100% electronic lodgement of all survey plans would be phased in by 1 September 2007. This Order was introduced under the Cadastral Survey Act 2002, which already provided powers to mandate electronic lodgement. The full name of this legislative Order is "Cadastral Survey (Compulsory Lodgement of Digital Cadastral Survey Datasets) Order 2007". Learn more about about legislation LINZ administers.

The 100% electronic lodgement of all remaining land title transactions became mandatory on 23 February 2009.

Landonline fees & charges

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