Tips and tricks for Landonline Survey

Searching for help content

To find specific Landonline help content, use Google search. In your search query, include:

• “LINZ”, or
• “survey support LINZ”

For example: “balance parcel LINZ”; “easement survey support LINZ”.  

The top results should be Landonline survey support content.

Panels: Column visibility and order

You can use the Column visibility icon to choose which columns display in a panel. These settings will remain when you close the panel or exit the survey.
 

You can also:

• reorder columns within a panel. Left-click on the column heading, then drag it to the new position within the panel.  
• change a column’s width. Drag the divider between the column headings.

Column order and width will reset when you close the panel.

For more information about working with panels, see:
Workflow control bar and using the panels

Automatic mark linking

You can use Automatic mark linking to quickly and easily link your captured marks to existing Landonline marks.  

This process checks for unlinked underlying marks within a certain distance of your unlinked captured marks, then links them if only 1 underlying mark is found. You are also notified if there are more than 1 or no underlying marks within the selected tolerance.

The Automatic mark linking icon is at the top right of the Marks panel.

To use the automatic mark linking function:

1. manually link 2 or more marks to generally align the survey to existing Landonline information
2. start with the smallest appropriate tolerance to begin automatic linking, and progressively increase the tolerance level to ensure correct mark links are achieved.
    

For more information, see:
Automatic mark linking

Manually changing CSD references in the Marks panel

If you import a LandXML with an incorrect CSD reference, the Marks panel will show an orange warning triangle for new marks.
 

To change the CSD reference for new marks:

1. Select the new marks with incorrect CSD references

2. Double-click in the State field and reselect New from the drop-down. Landonline will automatically update the CSD references to the current CSD reference.

   

You can also change a CSD reference by manually typing the new CSD reference into the CSD reference field:

1. Double-click into the CSD reference field.

2. Start typing the CSD reference. For an LT plan, type the reference as DP. A list will appear with suggested CSD references based on the typed content. When you type in the new plan reference, the list will usually show 1 option but with LT as the prefix.

   

3. Do NOT select the LT reference. Instead, press Enter or Tab on your keyboard to enter your manually typed DP reference. 

If you select the LT reference

If you select the LT reference, the CSD reference field will update to the LT reference and will still show an orange warning triangle. The warning message advises “For LT CSDs, new mark names should have the prefix of DP”.

Manually re-enter the CSD reference as DP, and ensure you press Enter to save it.

Referenced CSDs with multiple different bearing corrections

If you have a referenced CSD that has several different bearing corrections for your dataset:

1. Include the plan reference in the Referenced CSDs tab in the Survey details panel, including the most common bearing correction for that dataset.
2. Any vectors that are subsequently adopted from that dataset will include that bearing correction automatically added to the bearing correction field.
3. Manually amend the bearing correction for any individual vectors as needed.
    

For more information about adding Referenced CSDs and bearing corrections, see:
Add and edit Referenced CSDs

Zooming in to an area in spatial view

You have 3 ways to zoom in to an area in spatial view.

Method 1: Use your Shift key and mouse

Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and then left-click and drag your mouse to draw a rectangle around the area in spatial view you want to zoom in on.
 

When you release your mouse, the spatial view will zoom to the area you have drawn. 

Method 2: Use the scroll wheel on your mouse

Position your mouse cursor over the area you want to zoom in to, and use the scroll wheel on the mouse to either zoom in or out.
 

Method 3: Zoom to survey

If you’ve zoomed in or out a long way, or have panned away from your survey, to quickly and easily zoom to your survey extents, select Zoom to survey in the Tools control bar.
 

This centres your survey in the spatial screen, zoomed to the extents of your survey.
 

You can also use this function to easily locate an area when you have no spatial capture, for example when:

• manually capturing a dataset
• adding a survey reference to an aspatial dataset, for example cross-lease or unit plans.

1. Enter the underlying parcel(s) by appellation or parcel ID in the Existing parcels panel using Search/add existing parcel.

   

2. Select Zoom to extents to centre Landonline on that parcel.

3. Add your survey reference by right-clicking and selecting Add survey reference here.

   

4. Continue your manual or aspatial capture.

Linking parcels in large datasets

Landonline can sometimes time-out or display unexpected errors when you attempt to link parcels in a large or complex dataset.

To help prevent this, before you link parcels:

• temporarily turn off Auto-regenerate map:
  1. In the Tools control toolbar, select Map settings.

  2. Toggle OFF Auto-regenerate map.

     

• turn off any unnecessary layers:

  1. Open the Layers panel from the Tools control toolbar.

  2. Toggle off any unneeded layers, for example Parcels, Underlying lines, Labels, etc. Note that when you link your parcels, the relevant layers will automatically display.

     

  Once you have completed your parcel linking, ensure you turn Auto-regenerate and the hidden layers back to ON, as needed.