Landwrap May 2013 - Issue 99

Landwrap May 2013 - Issue 99

Landonline spatial data update planned

This page contains the article Landonline spatial data update planned.

Following extensive data analysis and modelling, LINZ is planning a bulk spatial update of geodetic and cadastral data in Landonline to account for the movement of marks resulting from the Christchurch earthquakes in 2010 and 2011, as well as four other significant earthquakes that have affected the South Island since 2000.

Once the update is complete the geodetic database and Landonline will reflect current, accurate coordinates and can be used again as your primary source of data for the Canterbury region.

All marks which have moved more than 0.05 metres will be updated, including 400,000 parcels and 1,700,000 survey marks and boundary points. This means, almost 70% of the South Island parcels will change to some degree. With such a wide scale of change, we will provide resources to help you manage the update to your systems.

This update is currently planned for implementation in late July. Visit the Canterbury earthquakes (//www.linz.govt.nz/survey-titles/canterbury-earthquake/canterbury-earthquake/geodetic-surveycontrol-network) section of our website for more information.

Please contact Matt Amos (m amos@linz.govt.nz (mailto:mamos@linz.govt.nz) ) to be kept up to date with the latest developments.

LINZ to provide easier access to land records

LINZ is embarking on the development of a new service which will see business and the general public gain easier, faster and cheaper access to land records – streamlining the process involved when people are considering buying or selling property.

Two online services will be created: one allowing the public to find and purchase land records – such as property titles – automatically and instantly, and a business-to-business web interface through which land search businesses can provide records to customers.

The development of these services is part of a wider public sector drive to deliver better and smarter services to the public and business by improving their ability to interact with government online.

The online search will provide the public with easier access to information, giving them greater certainty and understanding of their property rights. This will replace the current Land Record Order Form (https://apps.linz.govt.nz/survey-titles/order-copy/)

The business-to-business web interface will allow agencies that provide land record search services to request records directly from Landonline, enabling efficiencies through automation.

To build on the positive partnership LINZ has with a number of these organisations, we invite you – as valued partners – and others in the industry, to be involved in the development of the business-to-business web service. Please contact Ashley Wright ( agwright@linz.govt.nz (mailto:agwright@linz.govt.nz) ) if you wish to be involved.

Printing from the Search Results window

This is a reprint of an article that originally appeared in May 2013. This is a reprint of an article that originally appeared in the May 2013 issue of Landwrap. (//www.linz.govt.nz/about-landonline/newsletter/landwrap/201305/printing-search-results-window)

Landonline release 3.8 gave users the ability to print multiple items direct from the search results screen (//www.linz.govt.nz/landonline-system-updates/release-notes-3-8-conveyancers#SDM 261040) .

Since then some users have inadvertently incurred unwanted fees after selecting Print Search instead of Print List.

It is important to note that

• The Print List option allows you to print a list of selected search result items from the Search Results box. If you need to print the entire list you will need to click “Select All”. This incurs no fees. This does not print copies of the titles themselves.
• The Print Search option will print the titles in their entirety, and fees will be charged for each search result selected. It will only print those searches that have been selected and highlighted from the results list, so again, if you need to print the entire list you will need to click “Select All”.

Using the correct print function will help you to avoid incurring unwanted fees.

Significant failures to comply with the Rules for Cadastral Survey

The Surveyor-General is required, by s7(1)(d) Cadastral Survey Act 2002, to advise the Cadastral Surveyors Licensing Board of any significant failures by cadastral surveyors to comply with the Rules for Cadastral Survey.

This can apply to errors corrected by requisition as well as those discovered following approval.

In the year to June 2013 there have been 15 cases of significant failure reported to the Board.

The Board considers these reports against the individual surveyors before renewing annual licences.

Most s7(1)(d) reports to date have resulted from errors found after CSD approval and have been discovered at the time of issue of title, when the CSD is adjusted into the cadastral fabric, or when further survey work is undertaken in the same area.

Significant failures to comply with the Rules for Cadastral Survey detected prior to approval can also be advised to the Board.

Surveyors cannot assume that errors corrected through the requisition process before approval protects them from a referral to the Board.

Correction of errors discovered following approval will often require a corrective dataset to be prepared by the surveyor responsible for the error, pursuant to s52 Cadastral Survey Act 2002.

To limit future liability in those cases where the errors affect boundaries, the surveyor may also need to deal with the landowners and may need to instigate correction of titles although this is not a requirement of s52.

Surveyors are reminded of the need to embed sound quality assurance systems in their processes to ensure that there are no significant failures to comply with the Rules for Cadastral Survey when their datasets are first lodged with LINZ.

Good quality assurance processes will lead to first time compliance with no requisitions and reduce the likelihood of their work being subject to a s7(1)(d) advice to the Cadastral Surveyors Licensing Board.