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Key datasets play a critical role in decision-making for emergency management. They cover people, property, transport, rivers, place, land and coast, and are vital for risk reduction, readiness, response and recovery, and climate change.

Toitū Te Whenua helps coordinate and promote the use of geographic data as New Zealand prepares for and responds to emergency events and climate change.

This page contains links to the Brown Bag Resilience Series of presentations, including slides, videos and webinars.

Named by Cook after the wife of King George III, Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui was officially dual named in 2014 through two Treaty of Waitangi settlements.

Originally named by Kupe who took it for a whale (tohoraha being the southern right whale), Cook later named this feature after a camel.

While Cook had no doubts about the nature of this feature, he didn’t know that French explorer Jean François Marie de Surville had anchored in Doubtless Bay for two weeks in 1769 before sailing for Peru.

Named by Cook for a huge haul of fish. In 2012 the original Māori place name Paepae-o-Tū was restored by the Ngāti Manuhiri Treaty of Waitangi settlement.

This system enables the Crown to acquire, sell and manage Crown-owned land (including Crown pastoral leases) in a way that balances both the public interest and private property rights. It is made up of two parts – the Crown Estate Management system and the Crown Pastoral Land system.

Find out why uncertainty about the spelling and meanings of Cape Terawhiti and Cape Koamaru persist today.

Paoa was captain of the Horouta waka and his name and exploits are featured across the east coast of Te Ika-a-Māui North Island. Cook named it after the 12-year-old crewman who first spotted land from HMB Endeavor.

Stories from Place Names of the Ancestors, A Māori Oral History Atlas.

Alex is a Geospatial Data Administrator with the New Zealand Defence Force.

Rebecca McMorran is a Senior Transport Analyst, Transport Strategy Team at the Wellington City Council

New Zealand councils must accept the terms of an additional licence before you can access and use additional cadastral data in a ‘pending approval’ state through the LINZ Data Service.

The First World War through place names. Armistice Peak, south of Aoraki / Mount Cook.

The First World War through place names. Tyrwhitt Peak, Lake Wanaka.

The First World War through place names. Birdwood Range, Canterbury Foothills.

If you have been using our title and survey data for some time, you may sometimes need to refer to our reference material about our legacy data systems.