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Guidance articles on registering electronic land transactions, grouped into key topics like caveats, mortgages and subdivisions.

Information about applying for a record of title based on adverse possession, and applying to bring deeds land under the Land Transfer Act 2017 (by an adverse occupier).

Information about transfer instruments including mortgagee sale transfers, no survivorship notations, and more.

Guidance to help you build your own New Zealand-centric maps for mobile, web and GIS apps.

Users may need to convert and transform coordinates between geodetic datums, projections and height systems when they combine data from different sources.

Set up and use changesets to keep your LINZ data up to date.

Definitions for official, recorded, dual, alternative and collected place names, and what we don’t name.

Find out about fresh or seawater areas and your responsibilities.

Information about requests, requisition and rejection reasons, correcting a land record, and compensation.

Guidance on meeting the requirements of the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021) relating to water boundaries.

Guidance on meeting the requirements for cadastral survey datasets (CSDs) that are being prepared under the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021) to support the acquisition or setting apart of land for public works or other public purposes.

How to use Title mode to prepare a transmission in Landonline.

How to use Simple mode to perform a full transfer of ownership for all titles in a transfer.

Guidance on meeting the requirements of Part 4 of the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021) relating to field survey.

Use the map control toolbar to zoom in and out, set display thresholds, change selection mode, extract survey data or run a coordinate transformation, use spatial layer controls and change Basemap options.

Answers to questions asked during and after our November 2025 webinar on Limited title surveys

Find out how long it will take us to assess your application and the factors that may slow this down.

Information on the latest updates in Landonline - Web Search.

How to prepare a variation of mortgage in Landonline.

How to propose a new name for a place or feature in New Zealand, on our offshore islands or on our continental shelf, or in our Antarctic area of interest.

Capture a dataset by importing a LandXML file into your created survey, or by manually capturing data using the spatial view and tools.

Guidance on error messages in Landonline. You can search by the error message number or by using CTRL+F to search this page.