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Publications about traditional and current place naming produced by the New Zealand Geographic Board.

Making place names official enables clear communication and connections between people, places, and information. They identify where we are as we go about our everyday business.

The Overseas Investment team at Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand ensures responsible overseas investment in New Zealand.

Learn about the history of the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) and the former Overseas Investment Commission (OIC).

Find out about the NZTopo database data model, and read its accuracy statements and technical information.

Topographic data is information about the features of the land. We manage the LINZ Topographic database, which helps produce our wide range of topomaps.

The NHN ensures that important precise levelling control marks are retained and that geometric heights are determined for new control marks when they are established. This enables users to connect their datasets to the official geodetic datum.

Download free images of maps of the Antarctic’s Ross Sea region and the Darwin / Hatherton glacier region.

A map showing Crown pastoral leases (current and former) across the South Island.

We administer some forestry land on behalf of the Crown, safeguarding it for use in Treaty of Waitangi settlements.

Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand was formed in 1996 following the restructure of the Department of Survey and Land Information.

Tidal streams are the periodic horizontal movement of water. These have the same astronomical causes as tides, which move in a vertical direction.

The New Zealand Coordinate Conversions form can be used to convert coordinates between datums, projections and height coordinate systems used in New Zealand.

We meet 3 times a year to consider place names.

The survey system administered by Toitū Te Whenua forms a key part of the survey and land tenure framework that supports land ownership in New Zealand.

Information about what's on a Cadastral survey plan.

E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e rau rangatira mā. Nau mai, haere mai. Me pehea te rapu rekoata whenua Māori. Welcome. Find how to search for Māori land records.

Information about Crown grants.

Find information and examples of different types of land records.

Information on the digital cadastre, the Survey Conversion Project, and the Spatial Parcel Improvement project.

Our Strategic Intentions explains how we will focus our efforts to deliver the greatest value we can to our customers and New Zealand over the medium to long term.

Information about Crown Property files and how to find them.

Learn more about the types of property ownership and boundary data available on the LINZ Data Service.

The tidal streams in and around Cook Strait are unreliable and mariners are warned to exercise every precaution when navigating in the vicinity.

Read recent briefings on the Land Information portfolio, outlining our role, functions and strategic direction.

Let us know if you see a hazard or something you suspect will affect safe navigation, including anything missing from our charts or publications.

Get help on how to read your Topo50 maps and look at examples of different map formats.

Get help on how to read your Topo250 maps and look at examples of different map formats.

The Toitū Te Whenua LINZ Property Data Management Framework (PDMF) describes how to connect property data.