In April 2010, WCC began licensing and releasing geospatial data for re-use. This includes aerial photos, historic maps, boundaries, contour lines, building footprints, utility networks, hazard information and locations of WCC facilities.
This guidance note provides practical advice for agencies when selecting the formats for releasing public information and data for re-use in accordance with the NZ Government Open…
There is growing realisation around the world of the value in carrying out data inventories as a key foundational step to a well-managed data infrastructure and…
Early in April (prior to our launch of data.govt.nz), I met with Stu Smith and Helen Donaldson from the Auckland Council open data Community of Practice to demo and discuss...
LINZ Data Service (LDS) holds more than 40 groupings of data on New Zealand’s land and sea.
GeoNet provide free access to high quality and timely data and information for emergency management, research, industry use and to the public.
This walkthrough will help you correctly set up Creative Commons licences for your data layers in ArcGIS Online open data portal. Setting licences correctly here flows through to data.govt.nz when you make use of automated harvesting.
We look at the latest results from the data.govt.nz community feedback survey, to find out what works for you, what doesn't, and how we can improve the experience of using data.govt.nz.
Metadata describes your dataset to others in a standardised way. Having good quality metadata helps people discover and use your dataset. This guidance provides a description and examples of good practice metadata when releasing on data.govt.nz.
The Land Cover Database (LCDB), available to users of the Land Resource Information System (LRIS) portal offers environment data held by Landcare Research for re-use in GIS and mapping applications.