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A series of short, online technical demonstrations for New Zealand geospatial practitioners focussing on New Zealand-specific workflows and data needs.

We are disclosing our Chief Executive’s expenses, gifts and hospitality as part of our commitment to transparency and accountability.

There are thousands of survey marks in New Zealand. Many are below the ground so most of us never see them. Survey marks help in the surveying of property boundaries, as well as engineering, roading, mapping and measuring the position of land, sea and infrastructure.

Use our free award-winning basemaps to explore New Zealand and create maps using the latest open data from Toitū Te Whenua.

Christina is a BSc Environmental Science & Geography student via distance learning at Massey University.

Cait is a GIS Analyst (Historian specialist role) at Te Arawhiti – The Office for Māori Crown Relations.

Our proactive release policy aims to promote good government, and foster public trust and confidence.

The Central Record of State Land (CRoSL) is an innovative tool that supports government agencies, local agencies, councils, and the public to better understand who owns Crown Estate and State Land, who to contact for enquires and how it is being used.

This process explains what you can do if you wish to raise a concern or complaint about Toitū Te Whenua or a matter under our responsibility.

Two journeys of discovery led to the naming of these features in Fiordland’s Tamatea / Dusky Sound.

Botanist Joseph Banks’ hope of New Zealand being the ‘great southern continent’ were dashed when the HMB Endeavour rounded the southernmost point of Stewart Island / Rakiura and only ocean lay beyond. In 1998 the Ngāi Tahu Treaty settlement restored the original Māori name to the cape.

Named after the naturalist Joseph Banks, Banks Peninsula was shown on maps as an island for forty years until an 1809 survey.

Alternative official names for this Te Ika-a-Māui North Island feature recognise the great Pacific navigator Kupe and Sir Hugh Palliser, who was a key supporter of Cook in the British Admiralty.