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Land Information
Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)
Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is a New Zealand government department responsible for land titles, geodetic and cadastral survey systems, topographic information, hydrographic information, managing Crown property and a variety of other functions.
The site includes a searchable database of 40,000 New Zealand place names that it will locate by latitude and longitude, New Zealand map grid references and nearby place names.
The capabilities of the LINZ site are being extended so that all survey data can be lodged and retrieved on-line, while the LandonLine system is an automated survey and title service which to some extent duplicates the Terralink service.
Soon all conveyancing will be completely automated. Topographic data can be ordered in digital form but is expensive.
Māori Land Information
The Māori Land Information Base (MLIB) is used to locate individual Māori land blocks on a computer-generated map.
It contains Māori Land Court information about Māori freehold land (as at August 2000), which the Māori Land Court in consultation with Māori has approved for release on the Internet.
This information is overlaid on a digital cadastral database and includes:
- The size of each Māori land block
- An indication of the number of owners
- Topographical information such as roads and rivers, and
- Relevant and appropriate management information, eg. if an incorporation or trust manages the land, etc.
