New Zealand Layers

This dataset provides title information (excluding ownership) where there is a relationship to one or more primary parcels.

A Record of Title is a record of a property's owners, legal description and the rights and responsibilities registered against the title.

This dataset does not contain any ownership information so that it can be freely distributed. If ownership information is required, see the NZ Property Title Including Owners and NZ Property Title Owners datasets. Note: these are restricted access datasets and require you to agree to the LINZ Licence for Personal Data.

There can be multiple parcels associated with a title, and a title may only have a part share in a parcel. This means the shape representing the title will be an aggregation of all parcels that the title is associated with. The ‘spatial extents shared’ attribute when equal to ‘false’ will indicate that title has exclusive interest over all of the shape (this will be case for the vast majority).

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 the LINZ website

This layer provides the current primary parcel polygons and some associated descriptive data that details the appellation (legal description), purpose, size and a list of titles that have an interest in the parcel.

A primary parcel is a portion of land that is intended to be :
• owned by the Crown, except moveable marginal strips
• Held in fee simple ((predominately private ownership)
• Maori freehold land or Maori customary land
• Public foreshore and seabed
• The bed of a lake or river
• Road or Railway
• Vested in a local authority

Primary parcels can be thought of as the 'base level' of the 'jigsaw puzzle' of all land making up New Zealand. Other 'levels' are NZ Non-primary parcels that essentially limit the full rights that would normally be associated with a primary parcel for example easements, covenants, leases and moveable marginal strips etc.

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

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

Orthophotography for the Waikato region taken during 2012 and 2013. Coverage encompassed the entire Waikato Regional Council area.

Imagery was captured for the ‘Waikato Regional Aerial Photography Service (WRAPS) 2012 ’ by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd, 208 Warren Street, PO Box 6, Hastings 4156, New Zealand.

Data has subsequently been provided to LINZ and this comprises:
•3545 x ortho-rectified RGB GeoTIFF images in NZTM projection, tiled into the LINZ Standard 1:5,000 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 1:5,000 tiles. Please refer to the supplied tile layout shape file for specific details, naming conventions, etc.

Imagery supplied as 50cm pixel resolution (0.5m GSD), 3-band (RGB) uncompressed GeoTIFF. The final spatial accuracy is +/-2m (@ 90% confidence).

Index tiles for this dataset are available as layer Waikato 0.5m Rural Aerial Photos Index Tiles (2012-2013).

Orthophotography for the Auckland region taken between 2010 and 2012. Coverage encompassed the entire Auckland Council area.

Imagery was captured for the Auckland Council by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd, 208 Warren Street, PO Box 6, Hastings 4156, New Zealand.

Data has subsequently been provided to LINZ and this comprises:
•271 x ortho-rectified RGB GeoTIFF images in NZTM projection, tiled into the LINZ Standard 1:10,000 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 1:10,000 tiles. Please refer to the supplied tile layout shape file for specific details, naming conventions, etc.

Imagery supplied as 50cm pixel resolution (0.5m GSD), 3-band (RGB) uncompressed GeoTIFF. The final spatial accuracy is +/-3m (@ 90% confidence).

Index tiles for this dataset are available as layer Auckland 0.5m Rural Aerial Photos Index Tiles (2010-2012)

Orthophotography for BOPLASS ltd taken during 2011 and 2012. Coverage encompassed the wider Bay of Plenty.

Imagery was captured for the ‘Boplass ltd and Gisborne District Council’ by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd, 208 Warren Street, PO Box 6, Hastings 4156, New Zealand.

The supplied imagery is in terms of New Zealand Transverse Mercator (NZTM) map projection. The products are tiled into NZTopo50 1:2,000 tiles. Please refer to the supplied tile layout shape file for specific details, naming conventions, etc.

Imagery supplied as 25cm pixel resolution (0.25m GSD), 3-band (RGB) uncompressed GeoTIFF. The final spatial accuracy is +/-0.5m (@ 90% confidence).

Index tiles for this dataset are available as layer Bay of Plenty 0.25m Rural Aerial Photos Index Tiles (2011-2012).

Orthophotography for the Otago region taken in the flying seasons (summer periods) of 2004 to 2011. Coverage encompassed 100% of the Otago Regional councils area.

Imagery was captured for ‘Terralink International Limited and Otago Regional Council’.

The Data comprises:
• 3,886 x ortho-rectified RGB GeoTIFF images in NZTM projection, tiled into the LINZ Standard 1:10,000 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 1:5,000 tiles. NOTE: There will also be a few 1:10K tiles (4.8km x 7.2km) included along the regional boundary common to Otago and Southland.
Please refer to the supplied tile layout shape file for specific details, naming conventions, etc.

Imagery supplied as 75cm pixel resolution (0.75m GSD), 3-band (RGB) uncompressed GeoTIFF. The final spatial accuracy varies between +/-2.5m & +/- 10m (@ 90% confidence) - please refer to the supplied tile layout shape file for specific details.

Index tiles for this dataset are available as layer Otago 0.75m Rural Aerial Photos Index Tiles (2004 - 2011)

Orthophotography for the Taranaki region taken in the flying season (summer period) 2011 - 2012. Coverage encompassed the entire Taranaki Regional Council area.

Imagery was captured for the ‘Taranaki Regional Consortium’ by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd, 208 Warren Street, PO Box 6, Hastings 4156, New Zealand.

Data has subsequently been provided to LINZ and this comprises:
•881 x ortho-rectified RGB GeoTIFF images in NZTM projection, tiled into the LINZ Standard 1:5,000 tile layout
• Shape file of the photo-centres in NZTM projection containing relevant information.
•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 1:5,000 tiles. Please refer to the supplied tile layout shape file for specific details, naming conventions, etc.

Imagery supplied as 40cm pixel resolution (0.4m GSD), 3-band (RGB) uncompressed GeoTIFF. The final spatial accuracy is +/-2.5m (@ 90% confidence).

Index tiles for this dataset are available as layer Taranaki 0.4m Rural Aerial Photos Index Tiles (2011-2012).

Orthophotography for the Canterbury region taken in the flying season (summer period) 2012 - 2013. Coverage encompassed the Selwyn, Ashurbution, and Timaru council areas.

Imagery was captured for the ‘Environment Canterbury’ by Aerial Surveys Ltd, Unit A1, 8 Saturn Place, Albany,0632, New Zealand.

Data comprises:
•1,456 x ortho-rectified RGBi GeoTIFF images in NZTM projection, tiled into the LINZ Standard 1:5,000 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 1:5,000 tiles. Please refer to the supplied tile layout shape file for specific details, naming conventions, etc.

Imagery supplied as 40cm pixel resolution (0.4m GSD), 3-band (RGB) uncompressed GeoTIFF. The final spatial accuracy is +/-0.6m.

Index tiles for this dataset are available as layer Canterbury 0.4m Rural Aerial Photos Index Tiles (2012-2013)

Orthophotography for the Southland region taken during 2005 to 2011. Coverage encompassed 100% of the Southland Regional councils area.

Imagery was captured for the ‘Southland Consortium (Southland District Council, Gore District Council, Environment Southland, and Department of Conservation).

Data has subsequently been provided to LINZ and this comprises:
• 1,097 x ortho-rectified RGB GeoTIFF images in NZTM projection, tiled into the LINZ Standard 1:10,000 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 1:10,000 tiles. Please refer to the supplied tile layout shape file for specific details, naming conventions, etc.

Imagery supplied as 75cm pixel resolution (0.75m GSD), 3-band (RGB) uncompressed GeoTIFF. The final spatial accuracy varies between +/-2.5m & +/- 10m (@ 90% confidence) - please refer to the supplied tile layout shape file for specific details.

Index tiles for this dataset are available as layer Southland 0.75m Rural Aerial Photos Index Tiles (2005 - 2011)

Orthophotography for the Southland & Central Otago regions taken in the flying season (summer period) 2013 - 2014. Coverage encompassed parts of the Environment Southland, Southland District, Invercargill City, Clutha District, Gore District and Central Otago District council areas.

Imagery was captured for ‘Environment Southland, Southland District, Invercargill City, Clutha District, Gore District, Central Otago District councils, Land Information NewZealand, Ministry for Primary Industries, and The Department of Conservation’ by New Zealand Aerial Mapping Ltd, Hastings, New Zealand.

Data comprises:
•2,516 x ortho-rectified RGB GeoTIFF images in NZTM projection, tiled into the LINZ Standard 1:5,000 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 1:5,000 tiles. Please refer to the supplied tile layout shape file for specific details, naming conventions, etc.

Imagery supplied as 40cm pixel resolution (0.4m GSD), 3-band (RGB) uncompressed GeoTIFF. The final spatial accuracy is +/-3.0m.

Index tiles for this dataset are available as layer Southland & Central Otago 0.4m Rural Aerial Photos Index Tiles(2013-14)