Data

The Fire and Emergency NZ Localities dataset provides suburbs (urban areas) or localities (rural areas) for all New Zealand. The data also includes in-use geographical names and alias names.

The complete dataset is comprised of this spatial dataset, as well as three aspatial auxiliary tables.

NZ Localities are used by Fire and Emergency NZ for locating and responding to emergencies within New Zealand. Coverage includes the New Zealand mainland, Stewart Island/Rakiura and offshore islands, as well as lakes and inland islands.

This dataset is maintained by Fire and Emergency New Zealand and has been made available via the LINZ Data Service as part of LINZ’s key datasets for resilience and climate change programme.

For detailed metadata about this dataset, see the attached Fire and Emergency NZ Localities Data Dictionary below.

Licensing
The Fire and Emergency NZ Localities dataset is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). However, an additional request has been made to users of this dataset.

Important: This dataset is used by Fire and Emergency New Zealand in the delivery of emergency services and helps in confirming where to send emergency services. As such, the factual accuracy of this data is very important.

Fire and Emergency New Zealand therefore requests that you do not:

• alter the data in any way that changes its factual accuracy. For example, do not change suburb boundaries and/or naming conventions; and

• knowingly make any misrepresentations or misstatements about the data or Fire and Emergency New Zealand; and

• knowingly do anything that adversely reflects on the data, or the reputation of Fire and Emergency New Zealand.

Official names
The Fire and Emergency NZ Localities dataset currently contains many names that are not the official names for those features, suburbs or localities. The New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008, Section 32 requires all official documents to identify names which are not the official place names as recorded in the New Zealand Gazetteer. Please refer to the New Zealand Gazetteer for information on which names are official in this dataset.

APIs and web services
This dataset is available via ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS REST services, as well as our standard APIs.
LDS APIs and OGC web services
ArcGIS Online map services

The NZ Localities: Major Locality Alias table is part of the Fire and Emergency NZ Localities dataset.

The Major Locality Alias table includes alternative/alias/adjacent polygons names for Major Localities

The Fire and Emergency NZ Localities dataset is used by Fire and Emergency New Zealand for locating and responding to emergencies within New Zealand. Coverage includes the New Zealand mainland, Stewart Island/Rakiura and offshore islands, as well as lakes and inland islands.

It is maintained by Fire and Emergency New Zealand and has been made available via the LINZ Data Service as part of LINZ’s key datasets for resilience and climate change programme.

For detailed metadata about this dataset, see the Fire and Emergency NZ Localities Data Dictionary.

The NZ Localities: Locality Alias table is part of the Fire and Emergency NZ Localities dataset.

The Locality Alias table includes alternative/alias/adjacent Locality polygons for Localities. This includes all Locality types including: Localities, Suburbs, Park Reserve, Lakes, Coastal and Inland Bays, and Islands.

The Fire and Emergency NZ Localities dataset is used by Fire and Emergency New Zealand for locating and responding to emergencies within New Zealand. Coverage includes the New Zealand mainland, Stewart Island/Rakiura and offshore islands, as well as lakes and inland islands.

It is maintained by Fire and Emergency New Zealand and has been made available via the LINZ Data Service as part of LINZ’s key datasets for resilience and climate change programme.

For detailed metadata about this dataset, see the Fire and Emergency NZ Localities Data Dictionary.

The NZ Localities: City Alias table is part of the Fire and Emergency NZ Localities dataset.

The City Alias table includes alternative/alias/adjacent polygons (cities) names for cities.

The Fire and Emergency NZ Localities dataset is used by Fire and Emergency New Zealand for locating and responding to emergencies within New Zealand. Coverage includes the New Zealand mainland, Stewart Island/Rakiura and offshore islands, as well as lakes and inland islands.

It is maintained by Fire and Emergency New Zealand and has been made available via the LINZ Data Service as part of LINZ’s key datasets for resilience and climate change programme.

For detailed metadata about this dataset, see the Fire and Emergency NZ Localities Data Dictionary.

This dataset was created by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand to be used in conjunction with the Fire and Emergency NZ Localities dataset to identify and provide official locality names where a name exists in the New Zealand Gazetteer.

The Fire and Emergency NZ Localities dataset currently contains many names that are not the official names for those features, suburbs or localities.
The New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008, Section 32 requires all official documents to identify names which are not the official place names as recorded in the New Zealand Gazetteer. As such this table identifies locality names and the matching official name where an official name in the Gazetteer exists, but Locality name differs from it.
It does not take into account any differences in Locality boundaries and the boundary definition of place names in the Gazetteer.
This table is a best endeavour and not comprehensive, but will improve over time.
Feedback can be sent to linzdataservice@linz.govt.nz