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This article contains information on Survey Sheets on a ‘Parcels without survey information’ type CSD.

When linking a large number of parcels, Landonline redraws all layers turned on each time you link.

This article contains information on Plan Generation – splitting and combining diagrams.

High-level spatial data concepts and considerations when recording spatial data in a New Zealand context.

LINZ Basemaps APIs allow you to programmatically access LINZ map tile services to integrate into your mobile, web or GIS app. This documentation provides an overview of our map tile APIs and how to use them.

This page provides technical documentation and specifications to help you start building with LINZ Basemaps APIs.

The LINZ Basemaps API lets you build your own New Zealand-centric maps for mobile, web and GIS apps. This page describes our APIs and what you need to do to use them successfully.

Find out how the government assesses certain overseas investments to ensure New Zealand’s national interest is protected.

If you are concerned for your safety, or that of your family, you can apply to the Registrar-General of Land (Registrar) to withhold information from the register if that information will disclose your whereabouts and prejudice your safety.

Find out about investing in apartments in New Zealand, and whether you need consent to do so.

Find out about investing in New Zealand securities, assets or businesses, or establishing a business valued at over $100 million.

Find out about the pathways for investing in and developing residential land.

Find out about the enforcement action taken by the Overseas Investment Office since 2015.

We encourage councils, developers and communities to make proposals to officially name your suburbs and localities.

Find out about the way we check that investors are meeting their obligations.

New Zealand’s overseas investment regime is a specialist area of law. Overseas investors should seek local expert legal and land advice before investing in New Zealand.

Find out how to structure benefit claims.

Find out how to contact us.

Information for surveyors about the 2016 Kaikoura earthquakes.

This section provides information to help Canterbury property owners understand the law for locating property boundaries in Christchurch and how they may be affected.

Steps to transfer your digital certificate to another computer.

Find out about Rights of First Refusal, and how they fit into the process for disposing of and leasing Crown-owned land.

You can propose a name for a place or feature in the Ross Dependency and other areas in Antarctica where New Zealand has an operational interest.

There are a number of different notices that Toitū Te Whenua LINZ is obliged to issue under the Land Transfer Act 2017 - this page explains some of the common types of notice.

LINZ has developed a self-assessment questionnaire to help survey firms assess their control environment, and to provide guidance about the types of quality controls survey firms may use within their own office.

District and city councils are responsible for allocating road names and property numbers.

Downloads and instructions for installing Print-to-TIFF software.

Information on how to set up a new Landonline account, remove an account, change details and add users to an existing account.

Some preliminary requisition analysis has been undertaken for the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021). The following trends have been identified.

New Zealand has sovereign rights over a vast area of ocean, along with the fishery, mineral and petroleum resources that may exist in that area.

In some circumstances, a licensed cadastral surveyor may need authorisation from the Surveyor-General to enter land to conduct a cadastral survey or install a survey mark. This page outlines information about applying for this authority.

Find out what is involved if you are selling a sensitive New Zealand asset to an overseas person.