NZTM2000 map tile service schema

Find the information you need to understand the Toitū Te Whenua implementation of its NZTM2000 map tile services.

NZTM2000 (ESPG:2193) is a New Zealand projected east/north coordinate system. NZTM2000 is maintained by Toitū Te Whenua.

This tile set is useful for New Zealand spatial professionals and can be used for desktop GIS mapping. It is also recommended for web applications when area and distances need to be well represented on the map.

This tile set has coverage of the New Zealand mainland.

The following definition describes the scale set for LINZ Data Service NZTM2000-supported tile services and LINZ Basemap NZTM APIs. This scale set has been created to provide a consistently styled zoom map stack for easier interpretation of mapping between zoom thresholds.

Specification

Tile information

mm per pixel 0.28
DPI 90.71428571428571
Tile size 256 (W) x 256 (H)
Origin X -1000000
Origin Y 10000000

Full extent

Min X 274000
Max X 3327000
Min Y 3087000
Max Y 7173000
Bounds (WKT) POLYGON ((274000 7173000, 3327000 7173000, 3327000 3087000, 274000 3087000, 274000 7173000))

Zoom levels

The NZTM2000 tile services have 17 levels of detail.

Zoom level

Scale

Resolution (pixel size m)

0

32000000

8960

1

16000000

4480

2

8000000

2240

3

4000000

1120

4

2000000

560

5

1000000

280

6

500000

140

7

250000

70

8

100000

28

9

50000

14

10

25000

7

11

10000

2.8

12

5000

1.4

13

2500

0.7

14

1000

0.28

15

500

0.14

16

250

0.07