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Invite for Comments on the Australia/New Zealand Urban Rural Addressing Standard

The draft Rural and Urban Addressing Standard is being reviewed. Standards New Zealand invites you to provide comments via their website.   read more

Mourning Our Loss: Geoff Howard

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 It is with sad heart that I must pass along the news of the recent passing of our colleague, Geoff Howard, Chief Topographer at LINZ. As many of you know Geoff was an institution within the New Zealand geospatial community and made tremendous contributions during his 38 years as a public servant. His knowledge, experience, and vision inspired many. read more

Vacancy: Spatial Data Infrastructure/Technical Leader

Applications are now closed for this vacancy Key new ‘'Champion" role Engaging, collaborating, educating, consulting and facilitating Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)'s purpose is to maintain and build confidence in property rights in land and geogra read more

University of Canterbury becomes CRCSI Essential Participant

The University of Canterbury has been formally accepted as an Essential Participant in the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information.  The New Zealand node of the Australian-based CRCSI was established in 2010 and is based in the New Zealand Geospatial Office.  With LINZ as New Zealand's "anchor" government participant, and a growing number of local private sector participan read more

Secrets of Mashup Design

This presentation covers high level design tips for building Mashup Websites, presented to surveyors, business people and other members from the Australian Surveying and Spatial Science Institute. It profiles readers and how they interact with web pages, the technical strengths and weaknesses of mashup technologies, which leads into defining best practice for building mashup websites. read more