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This report updated Cabinet in November 2022 on the progress of SouthPAN, Toitū Te Whenua and Geoscience Australia’s joint initiative to improve the accuracy of global positioning signals in Australia and New Zealand.

This Official Information Act response describes the process for users to request and be approved to access property and ownership layers containing personal data within the LINZ Data Service. It provides links to the relevant licence agreements for use of the datasets.

This report updated Cabinet in May 2023 on the progress of Toitū Te Whenua and Geoscience Australia’s joint SouthPAN satellite initiative to improve the accuracy of global positioning signals in Australia and New Zealand.

The Official Information Act response provides information on the updated process LINZ have implemented in applying for restricted bulk property ownership information on the LINZ Data Service (LDS).

The purpose of this document is to confirm the key datasets for resilience and climate change, establish the priority data improvements for the coming year and provide an update of data improvements since July 2022.

The purpose of this document is to review improvements made to the 12 national key datasets for resilience and climate change during 2021/22 and to establish the priority data improvements for 2022/23.

The purpose of this document is to review improvements made to the 12 national key datasets for resilience and climate change during 2020/21 and to establish the priority data improvements for 2021/22.

This historic document provides information on the data that was converted from DCDB into Landonline, and provides the mapping of each DCDB feature into Landonline.

These guidelines were developed as part of a pilot project undertaken by LINZ to scan negatives from the Crown Aerial Photo Archive. The negatives contained in the Archive represent some 70 years of aerial surveys flown over New Zealand.

This Strategic Assessment provides the rationale for New Zealand territorial authorities to invest in the development of smart cities in their community. It is designed to support the aspiration of New Zealand communities to build better and more resilient human ecosystems – to ensure their neighbourhoods and cities are better places to live, play and work.

This document is intended as guidance to local councils and others procuring aerial LiDAR data that will contribute to the Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) led National Elevation Programme.

The OIA response provides Toitū Te Whenua Land Information’s documents and information that speak to Māori data sovereignty implementation and Māori data governance implementation.

Times and direction of tidal streams in Tory Channel / Kura Te Au - in PDF format

A step-by-step guide for using the LINZ Data Service (LDS) - tailored for iwi, hapū and communities with a focus on climate resilience

Toitū Te Whenua (LINZ) makes a wealth of geospatial datasets available at no cost via the LINZ Data Service, including elevation data, aerial imagery, cadastral boundaries, and hydrographic data. All these can be accessed and downloaded freely by anyone.

Information about LINZ’s role in resilience and climate change and its CODEM demonstrator.

The Official Information Act response provides information on LINZ’s digital, technology, data and/or information strategies and a memo on progress/development of the strategy implementation.

Information for Controllers, Recovery Managers, Intelligence Functions and GIS Teams.

This paper updated Cabinet on the progress of the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) since April 2024.

The Official Information Act requests updated information of unit titles from a report in 2009. Some of the data can be accessed via LDS.

The Official Information Act response provides details of LINZ confirming a datums height discrepancy and how third parties/the public were notified of the discrepancy.

The purpose of this document is to review improvements made to the 12 national key datasets for resilience and climate change during 2019/20, and to establish the priority data improvements for 2020/21.

In 2015 Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), with funding from the Treasury Better Public Service Seed Fund established the Smart Cities programme. This programme sought to apply an agile approach to developing and testing 13 ‘smart’ ‘proof of concept’ projects across Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

This specification is designed to be used by data administrators and contract management staff in the key stakeholder organisations (New Zealand Police, New Zealand Fire Service, Land Information New Zealand and Statistics New Zealand) to help define and manage the initial provision and compilation of the ESA dataset and its subsequent maintenance and management.

To gauge how our customers are using GNSS/GPS technologies as well as their current use and perceptions of the products and services provided by the PositioNZ network. The results of the survey will aid decisions on how the network may be developed to cater for customers needs now and into the future.

This specification provides a foundation for New Zealand public sector airborne linear mode light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data procurement. It defines a consistent set of minimum products to ensure compatibility across projects and regions.

The process relating to making a change to NZ Suburbs and Localities, a dataset maintained by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand.

The principles, requirements and rules relating to updating and maintaining the names and spatial extents of suburbs and localities in NZ Suburbs and Localities, a dataset administered by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand.

Toitū Te Whenua administered a Provincial Growth Fund grant from Kānoa Regional Development and Commercial Services at MBIE and led the partnership with 10 regional councils to capture and make available LiDAR data for over 80% of the country. The Provincial Growth Fund LiDAR post-contract outcome report highlights the programme’s achievements since 2020.

This guideline outlines the technical requirements for supply of GNSS Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) metadata and RINEX (Receiver Independent Exchange Format) data files to Toitū Te Whenua.

Modified sections are highlighted yellow. All changes are in the interest of removing ambiguity, defining a standard product, and emphasising commonly missed details. The only additional requirement beyond Reference 12 is for the classification of vegetation and buildings.