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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 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 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.

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Information for cadastral surveyors, property professionals and property owners in regions affected by earthquakes and other natural disasters.

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

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

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

Information on capturing unit plans in Landonline.

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 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.