Canterbury Region Data

This layer includes the current South Island pastoral leases as at the layer's latest revision date. It excludes pastoral leases that have completed Tenure Review, endowment land, special leases, pastoral occupation licences, pastoral vacant land and special leases.
Lease boundaries have been derived from graphical cadastral line work held in LandOnline which in many cases was itself derived from the Lands and Survey Department's hard copy record sheets. The boundaries of many of these original Run Plans, on which these leases were based, were obtained from early Run Plans, circa 1860. As such please note that THE BOUNDARIES ARE INDICATIVE ONLY.
More information on Pastoral Leases can be found under the Crown Pastoral Land section on the LINZ website

This layer provides the extents of the data incorporated into an adjustment which has been completed as part of the Spatial Parcel Improvement (SPI) project. The SPI project aims to improve the accuracy of digital cadastral data in areas (primarily rural) where survey-accurate data does not currently exist. The improvement of coordinates is controlled by a mathematical adjustment process using a Least Squares methodology. The adjustment/integration process results in increased mapping accuracy of surrounding spatial objects (e.g. parcels), the effect of which is some new observations or parcels appear to move. The extent of the change largely depends upon the accuracy of the underlying data. In general, movements will be at least several metres, as the SPI project targets areas where significant movements are expected.

This layer provides the current strata parcel polygons and their associated descriptive data as a single layer to facilitate their use independently of other primary parcels or non primary parcels.

Strata parcels are portions of land where the vertical extent is limited.

The combination of this layer with the primary parcels layer provides all current parcels for New Zealand (i.e. excludes Historic and Pending parcels)

If you require approved or historic parcels see the All Parcels Layer

This layer has a nominal accuracy of 0.1-1m in urban areas and 1-100m in rural areas. For more detailed information about parcel accuracies please refer to the Survey Boundary Marks layer which contains accuracies for each parcel node.

The originating data for parcel/title associations includes some non-official sources where the official data does not support a link. For more information see

This layer contains the DEM for LiDAR data in the Canterbury Region including Amuri Plain, Ashburton, Fairlie Foothills, Pegasus, Motunau, Selwyn North, Selwyn South and Waimate captured between 2018 and 2019.

• The DSM is available as layer Canterbury LiDAR 1m DSM (2018).

• The index tiles are available as layer Canterbury LiDAR 1m Index Tiles (2018).

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

LiDAR was captured for Environment Canterbury Regional Council by Aerial Surveys between March 2018 and May 2019. These 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 specification is at a minimum of 2 pulses/square metre.

Vertical datum is NZVD2016

This layer contains the DSM for LiDAR data in the Canterbury Region including Amuri Plain, Ashburton, Fairlie Foothills, Pegasus, Motunau, Selwyn North, Selwyn South and Waimate captured between 2018 and 2019.

• The DEM is available as layer Canterbury LiDAR 1m DEM (2018).

• The index tiles are available as layer Canterbury LiDAR 1m Index Tiles (2018).

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

LiDAR was captured for Environment Canterbury Regional Council by Aerial Surveys between March 2018 and May 2019. These 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 specification is at a minimum of 2 pulses/square metre.

Vertical datum is NZVD2016

This layer contains the Index Tiles for LiDAR data in the Canterbury Region including Amuri Plain, Ashburton, Fairlie Foothills, Pegasus, Motunau, Selwyn North, Selwyn South and Waimate captured between 2018 and 2019.

• The DEM is available as layer Canterbury LiDAR 1m DEM (2018).

• The DSM are available as layer Canterbury LiDAR 1m DSM (2018).

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

LiDAR was captured for Environment Canterbury Regional Council by Aerial Surveys between March 2018 and May 2019. These 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 specification is at a minimum of 2 pulses/square metre.

Vertical datum is NZVD2016

Seaweed is the general name for marine plants of the Algae class which grow in long narrow ribbons. Kelp is one of an order (laminariales) of usually large, blade-shaped or vine-like brown algae.

S-57 Object Class: Weed/Kelp

S-57 Acronym: WEDKLP

This data was compiled for the use in the scale range 1:4,000 to 1:22,000.

THIS DATA DOES NOT REPLACE NAUTICAL CHARTS AND MUST NOT BE USED FOR NAVIGATION.

This data is based on the S-57 data format used in Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) published and maintained by the New Zealand Hydrographic Authority at Land Information New Zealand (LINZ). Refer to the following link for information about S-57 data: www.linz.govt.nz/hydro/regulation/

The disturbance of water caused by the interaction of any combination of waves, currents, tidal streams, wind, shoal patches and obstructions.

S-57 Object Class: Water turbulence

S-57 Acronym: WATTUR

This data was compiled for the use in the scale range 1:4,000 to 1:22,000.

THIS DATA DOES NOT REPLACE NAUTICAL CHARTS AND MUST NOT BE USED FOR NAVIGATION.

This data is based on the S-57 data format used in Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) published and maintained by the New Zealand Hydrographic Authority at Land Information New Zealand (LINZ). Refer to the following link for information about S-57 data: www.linz.govt.nz/hydro/regulation/

A place at which a service generally of interest to small craft or pleasure boats is available.

S-57 Object Class: Small craft facility

S-57 Acronym: SMCFAC

This data was compiled for the use in the scale range 1:4,000 to 1:22,000.

THIS DATA DOES NOT REPLACE NAUTICAL CHARTS AND MUST NOT BE USED FOR NAVIGATION.

This data is based on the S-57 data format used in Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) published and maintained by the New Zealand Hydrographic Authority at Land Information New Zealand (LINZ). Refer to the following link for information about S-57 data: www.linz.govt.nz/hydro/regulation/

An area on land for the exploitation or storage of natural resources.

S-57 Object Class: Production/storage area

S-57 Acronym: PRDARE

This data was compiled for the use in the scale range 1:4,000 to 1:22,000.

THIS DATA DOES NOT REPLACE NAUTICAL CHARTS AND MUST NOT BE USED FOR NAVIGATION.

This data is based on the S-57 data format used in Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) published and maintained by the New Zealand Hydrographic Authority at Land Information New Zealand (LINZ). Refer to the following link for information about S-57 data: www.linz.govt.nz/hydro/regulation/