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Learn how to use Landonline – Survey to create and submit your survey dataset.

When you log in to Landonline, the My Work page displays. This is the landing page for Landonline Survey.

Find out the key differences between Legacy Landonline and New Landonline - Survey.

You can enable and manage users from an external firm using the Enable users panel. You can also remove yourself as an enabled user, external to a firm, from a survey from the My Work page.

Guidance for using Plan Generation in Landonline.

Review, add or edit the Referenced CSDs.

Label Preferences allows you to set the font style and size for the labels that display on your layout plan sheets.

Working with multiple vectors in centreline easements and changing the number of vectors in an easement.

Watch this video to see how to include an irregular boundary into your survey.

Existing parcels can be captured using an imported LandXML file.

Information on linking marks when there are multiple underlying marks very close together.

Information on extinguishing existing parcels in a flat plan or cross lease dataset, and what to do when the parcel can’t be extinguished.

Follow these steps to add notations recording new covenants, existing covenants to be retained or existing covenants to be revoked.

Use this process to record details of a renewed mark where there is no corresponding node to link to in Landonline.

Information on the latest updates in Landonline - Survey.

Information on the auto-recovery process in Layout Plan Sheets when Plan Generation closes unexpectedly.

Customer questions and our answers from the Landonline new Plan Generation webinar held on 30 July 2025.

This page shows the recommended workflow you should follow to create and submit a survey.

Information on preparing LandXML files for Landonline, including guidance on illegal characters and naming new marks and parcels, and what to check before and after import.

Guidance on meeting the requirements of the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021) and Landonline capture for boundary reinstatement surveys and cadastral survey datasets (CSDs).

A guide to requesting a dispensation from the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021) or the Standard for Lodgement of Cadastral Survey Datasets - LINZS70000 (Lodgement Standard).

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.

Guidance on meeting the requirements of Part 7 of the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021), including the capture and depiction requirements for record of survey, title plan, survey and title diagrams and associated Landonline capture.

Guidance on the contents of a cadastral survey dataset (CSD), the information to be included in a survey report and considerations for certifying a CSD.

Guidance on the use of a permanent structure boundary to define the horizontal or vertical extent of a parcel. Permanent structure boundaries are also referred to as PSB.

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.

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

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.

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.