Land Information New Zealand

Land Information New Zealand ( LINZ ) ( māori: Toitu te whenua ) is responsible for geographic information public service department in New Zealand.

The headquarters of the Department is located in Lambton House, 160 Lambton Quay, Wellington. The subordinate organizations are the New Zealand Geospatial Office, Overseas Investment Office and the New Zealand Geographic Board. CIEF Executive Officer ( CEO) of the Department since July 1, 2008 Colin MacDonald.

In the Department various governmental tasks are grouped based on geographical information. The official mission of the Department is to build confidence in property rights in land and geographic information and to maintain and develop markets for geographic information.

It focuses on three core areas:

  • Transaction Management - LINZ operates the national system for land rights and their transfer, comparable to the German land registry
  • Information Management - procure, obtain, collate and make available geographic information, information on land ownership
  • Land Management - including falls managing various in- property of the Crown lands in New Zealand

Transaction management

LINZ is responsible for the legislative framework and systems that determine ownership of land and dealing with them in New Zealand. it

  • Maintains and improves the regulatory systems that define property rights and facilitate their transfer
  • Manages the process of transfer of property titles, the creation of new property title and the recording of changes in ownership and claims in relation to land
  • Provides a safe environment to buy, sell and the subdivision of land by legally secure property titles and an accurate system for determining property boundaries
  • Operates a nationally uniform system of land valuation
  • Manages foreign investment in New Zealand under the Overseas Investment Act 2005.

Information Management

The agency provides a variety of geographic information, the. One hand for their own tasks in the management of property rights on land, on the other hand, this information is used for many other tasks, such as national security, emergency assistance, definition of electoral districts and commercial purposes

The Agency and managed to government databases for survey data, maps, hydrographic and land ownership. Due to the task to make this data available on a broad basis, in New Zealand much of this information will be accessible and free for everyone disseminated in electronic form on the Internet and placed under copyright licenses, which allow a wide use.

LINZ manages the geodetic survey data and New Zealand, the survey points in a freely accessible Datenbanb available.

LINZ creates and manages the official topographic map series in New Zealand. The current map series based on the cartography Topo50 a scale of 1:50,000, as well as a map series Topo250 a scale of 1:250,000 and a number of overview maps generated with larger scales. This map series can be downloaded from the Agency website for free, printed cards are printed and sold by distributors.

LINZ is also the institution that is responsible for providing navigational information for navigation in New Zealand waters. These include the official charts of New Zealand NZ202, which are also offered free of charge to download the necessary in shipping paper cards are sold by distributors. The map data is provided in two formats in electronic form for navigation systems for download: NZMariner ( raster maps ) and Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs ). The facility maintains the messaging system Notices to Mariners for navigation, the map changes, warnings against the latest threats, changes in lighthouses, radio signals and similar things every week provides as a PDF file. In addition, a tidal information system with information about the tides stalls and a reporting system is maintained, can be reported through the agency of Seefahreren the new threats to shipping.

Land Management

LINZ managed nearly three million acres of crown, about 8 % of the area of New Zealand. Among them are 1.6 million hectares of grazing land in the mountains of the South Island, forests in the North Island and about 4,000 more land, and the river beds of New Zealand's rivers and lakes. The Department acquires, manages and sells farm and is responsible for fulfilling the obligations of the property owner.

Legal representatives

To fulfill the LINZ transmitted statutory functions include the agency several officials:

  • Commissioner of Crown Lands ( Commissioner for the Crown Land )
  • Registrar - General of Land (Supreme register Officials on Land)
  • Surveyor - General (Chief Surveyor )
  • Valuer - General (Supreme plot voters).

In addition, LINZ has certain powers and responsibilities after more than 50 other laws and regulations.

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