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This dataset provides building outlines within mainland New Zealand extracted from multiple years of aerial imagery, allowing you to see change over time, or restrict the dataset to building outlines that match a specific aerial imagery source.

A building outline is a 2D representation of the roof outline of a building which has been classified from LINZ aerial imagery using a combination of automated and manual processes to extract and refine a building roof outline.

Building roof outlines observed in aerial imagery larger than or equal to 10 square meters are captured in this dataset, and may include structures such as garages and large sheds.

Data vintage

This dataset contains all building outlines which have been extracted from multiple years of aerial imagery available in each region of the country, including the most recent imagery. This dataset includes the dates for which each building existed in the aerial imagery.

Coverage areas include Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Hawke’s Bay, Manawatu-Whanganui, Wellington, Tasman, West Coast, Marlborough, Canterbury, Southland and Otago. This dataset will be updated and expanded as new aerial imagery becomes available.

Please refer to the NZ Building Outlines Data Dictionary for detailed metadata and information about this dataset.

Related building outlines data

NZ Building Outlines Lifecycle – stores the relationship between building outlines when one building is split into two or more building outlines, or when multiple building outlines are merged into a single outline. Use this in conjunction with the NZ Building Outlines (All Sources) dataset.

NZ Building Outlines - provides current building outlines only, derived from the latest LINZ aerial imagery.

This table provides the relationships between building outlines within mainland New Zealand when buildings are split or merged.

A building outline is a 2D representation of the roof outline of a building which has been classified from LINZ aerial imagery using a combination of automated and manual processes to extract and refine a building roof outline.

Data vintage

This dataset does not include building outline geometry, but provides the linkages between building_id's from different aerial imagery sources in the NZ Building Outlines (All Sources) dataset when building outlines change from single outlines split into multiple outlines, and from multiple outlines merged as single outlines.

This dataset will be updated with changes in building_id relationships as new aerial imagery becomes available.
Please refer to the NZ Building Outlines Data Dictionary for detailed metadata and information about this dataset.

Related building outlines data

NZ Building Outlines (All Sources) - directly related to this dataset, it contains all combinations of building outlines from multiple years of imagery that have existed since the beginning of this dataset.

NZ Building Outlines - provides current building outlines only derived from the latest LINZ aerial imagery.

This dataset provides current outlines of buildings within mainland New Zealand captured from the latest aerial imagery.

A building outline is a 2D representation of the roof outline of a building which has been classified from LINZ aerial imagery using a combination of automated and manual processes to extract and refine a building roof outline.

Building outlines observed in aerial imagery larger than or equal to 10 square meters are captured in this dataset, and may include structures such as garages and large sheds.

Data vintage

This dataset shows the most recent set of building outlines extracted from the LINZ aerial imagery available on the LINZ Data Service.

Current coverage includes areas in Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Hawke’s Bay, Manawatu-Whanganui, Wellington, Tasman, West Coast, Marlborough, Canterbury, Southland and Otago. This dataset will be updated and expanded as new aerial imagery becomes available.

Since aerial imagery is flown only every few years in each region of the country, building outlines only reflect those buildings observed at the date of this aerial imagery capture, and may not reflect buildings constructed after this time period.

Please refer to the NZ Building Outlines Data Dictionary for detailed metadata and information about this dataset.

Related building outlines data

NZ Building Outlines (All Sources) - contains all combinations of building outlines from multiple years of imagery that have existed since the beginning of this dataset, and the dates when each building outline existed in the associated aerial imagery.

NZ Building Outlines Lifecycle - is related to the dataset above and stores the relationship between building outlines when one building is split into two or more building outlines, or when multiple building outlines are merged into a single outline.

Orthophotography over Tauranga City.
The aerial photography was captured on 21 March 2017.

Imagery was captured for the ‘Tauranga City Council’ by AAM NZ Limited, 6 Ossian St, NAPIER, New Zealand.

Data comprises:
•788 ortho-rectified RGB GeoTIFF images in NZTM projection, tiled into the LINZ Standard 1:1,000 tile layout
•Tile layout in NZTM projection containing relevant information.

The supplied imagery is in terms of New Zealand Transverse Mercator (NZTM) map projection. The products are tiled into NZTopo50 1:1,000 tiles. Please refer to the supplied tile layout shape file for specific details, naming conventions, etc.

Imagery supplied as 10cm pixel resolution (0.010m GSD), 3-band (RGB) uncompressed GeoTIFF. The final spatial accuracy is ± 0.20m @ 90% confidence level.

Index tiles for this dataset are available as layer Tauranga 0.1m Urban Aerial Photos Index Tiles (2017)

Orthophotography of Palmerston North City taken in the flying seasons (summer period) 2016-2017.

Imagery was captured for Palmerston North City Council by Aerial Surveys Ltd, Unit A1, 8 Saturn Place, Albany,0632, New Zealand.

Data comprises:
•1,046 ortho-rectified RGB GeoTIFF images in NZTM projection, tiled into the LINZ Standard 1:1,000 tile layout
•Tile layout in NZTM projection containing relevant information.

The supplied imagery is in terms of New Zealand Transverse Mercator (NZTM) map projection. Please refer to the supplied tile layout shape file for specific details, naming conventions, etc.

Imagery supplied as 12.5cm pixel resolution (0.125m GSD), 3-band (RGB) uncompressed GeoTIFF. The final spatial accuracy is ±0.2 m @ 68% confidence level.

Index tiles for this dataset are available as layer Palmerston North 0.125m Urban Aerial Photos Index Tiles (2017)

This layer contains the index tiles for LiDAR data from the Canterbury Region captured between November 2016 and January 2017.

• The DEM is available as layer Canterbury LiDAR 1m DEM (2016).

• The DSM is available as layer Canterbury LiDAR 1m DSM (2016).

• The LAS point cloud and vendor project reports are available from OpenTopography.

Lidar was captured for Environment Canterbury Regional Council by AAM New Zealand between November 2016 and January 2017. The datasets were generated by AAM New Zealand and their subcontractors. Data management and distribution is by Land Information New Zealand.

Data comprises:

• DEM: tif or asc tiles in NZTM2000 projection, tiled into a 1:1,000 tile layout

• DSM: tif or asc tiles in NZTM2000 projection, tiled into a 1:1,000 tile layout

• Point cloud: las tiles in NZTM2000 projection, tiled into a 1:2,000 tile layout

Pulse density is 3.44 pulses/square metre.

Vertical accuracy specification is +/- 0.20 m (95%).

Horizontal accuracy specification is +/- 1.00m (95%).

Vertical datum is NZVD2016.

This layer contains the DSM for LiDAR data from the Canterbury Region captured between November 2016 and January 2017.

• The DEM is available as layer Canterbury LiDAR 1m DEM (2016).

• The index tiles are available as layer Canterbury LiDAR Index Tile (2016).

• The LAS point cloud and vendor project reports are available from OpenTopography.

Lidar was captured for Environment Canterbury Regional Council by AAM New Zealand between November 2016 and January 2017. The datasets were generated by AAM New Zealand and their subcontractors. Data management and distribution is by Land Information New Zealand.

Data comprises:

• DEM: tif or asc tiles in NZTM2000 projection, tiled into a 1:1,000 tile layout

• DSM: tif or asc tiles in NZTM2000 projection, tiled into a 1:1,000 tile layout

• Point cloud: las tiles in NZTM2000 projection, tiled into a 1:2,000 tile layout

Pulse density is 3.44 pulses/square metre.

Vertical accuracy specification is +/- 0.20 m (95%).

Horizontal accuracy specification is +/- 1.00m (95%).

Vertical datum is NZVD2016.

This layer contains the DEM for LiDAR data from the Canterbury Region captured between November 2016 and January 2017.

• The DSM is available as layer Canterbury LiDAR 1m DSM (2016).

• The index tiles are available as layer Canterbury LiDAR Index Tile (2016).

• The LAS point cloud and vendor project reports are available from OpenTopography.

Lidar was captured for Environment Canterbury Regional Council by AAM New Zealand between November 2016 and January 2017. The datasets were generated by AAM New Zealand and their subcontractors. Data management and distribution is by Land Information New Zealand.

Data comprises:

• DEM: tif or asc tiles in NZTM2000 projection, tiled into a 1:1,000 tile layout

• DSM: tif or asc tiles in NZTM2000 projection, tiled into a 1:1,000 tile layout

• Point cloud: las tiles in NZTM2000 projection, tiled into a 1:2,000 tile layout

Pulse density is 3.44 pulses/square metre.

Vertical accuracy specification is +/- 0.20 m (95%).

Horizontal accuracy specification is +/- 1.00m (95%).

Vertical datum is NZVD2016.

This layer contains the Index Tiles for LiDAR data from the Otago Region captured in 2016.

• The DEM is available as layer Otago LiDAR 1m DEM (2016).

• The DSM is available as layer Otago LiDAR 1m DSM (2016).

• The LAS point cloud and vendor project reports are available from OpenTopography.

Lidar was captured for Otago Regional Council by Aerial Surveys in March and April 2016. The datasets were generated by Aerial Surveys and their subcontractors. Data management and distribution is by Land Information New Zealand.

Data comprises:

• DEM: tif or asc tiles in NZTM2000 projection, tiled into a 1:1,000 tile layout

• DSM: tif or asc tiles in NZTM2000 projection, tiled into a 1:1,000 tile layout

• Point cloud: las tiles in NZTM2000 projection, tiled into a 1:1,000 tile layout

Pulse density is 2 pulses/square metre.

Refer to individual survey reports for accuracy statistics.

Vertical datum is NZVD2016.

Orthophotography in the Whanganui District taken in the flying seasons (summer period) 2017-2018.

Imagery was captured for Whanganui District Council by Aerial Surveys Ltd, Unit A1, 8 Saturn Place, Albany,0632, New Zealand.

Data comprises:
•764 ortho-rectified RGB GeoTIFF images in NZTM projection, tiled into the LINZ Standard 1:1,000 tile layout
•Tile layout in NZTM projection containing relevant information.

The supplied imagery is in terms of New Zealand Transverse Mercator (NZTM) map projection. Please refer to the supplied tile layout shape file for specific details, naming conventions, etc.

Imagery supplied as 7.5cm pixel resolution (0.075m GSD), 3-band (RGB) uncompressed GeoTIFF. The final spatial accuracy is ±0.15 m @ 68% confidence level.

Index tiles for this dataset are available as layer Whanganui 0.075m Urban Aerial Photos Index Tiles (2017)