The intention of the New Zealand Geospatial Strategy is that New Zealand's geospatial information is well-managed, easily-accessed and used efficiently.

What is the Strategy trying to achieve?

The four key goals of the Strategy are:

Governance

To establish the governance structure required to optimise the benefits from government's geospatial resources.

Data

To ensure the capture, preservation and maintenance of fundamental (i.e. priority) geospatial datasets, and set guidelines for non-fundamental geospatial data.

Access

To ensure that government geospatial information and services can be readily discovered, appraised and accessed.

Interoperability

To ensure that geospatial datasets, services and systems owned by different government agencies and local government can be combined and re-used for multiple purposes.

How will these goals be achieved?

The first step towards these goals is the development of an all-of-government Work Programme. 

You can find more information on current Work Programme activity in the About NZGO section of this website.

Meeting Government outcomes

The Strategy links into wider Government outcomes around New Zealand's innovation framework, skills and talent, increasing global connectedness and a focus on ICT and creative industries. The flowchart below outlines this relationship.