The governance of the New Zealand Geospatial Strategy is three-tiered, comprising the Joint Ministerial Group, the Geospatial Executives Group (GEG) and the Geospatial Steering Committee (GSC). The role of the New Zealand Geospatial Office (NZGO) is also outlined below.

Find out about developing the New Zealand Geospatial Strategy.

Joint Ministerial Group

The Ministers jointly responsible for the Strategy are:

• the Minister for Land Information
• the Minister for Information Technology.

Geospatial Executives Group (GEG)

The Geospatial Executives Group (GEG) is responsible for managing the successful delivery of the New Zealand Geospatial Strategy. The GEG represents various sectors and agencies with significant geospatial programmes of work. It is chaired by the Chief Executive of Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) and is comprised of five government agency Chief Executives, as well as the Chair of the Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) and the CEO of the New Zealand ICT Group (NZICT):

• Department of Conservation
• Envrionment Bay of Plenty
• Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
• New Zealand Transport Authority
• Statistics New Zealand
• Spatial Industries Business Association
• New Zealand ICT Group.

Download the Terms of Reference for the GEG (PDF 24KB).

Geospatial Steering Committee (GSC)

The Geospatial Steering Committee (GSC) reports to the GEG and is responsible for overseeing the work programme to implement the Strategy. The GSC is chaired by the Geospatial Custodian and comprises ten members representing a range of government agencies and sectors:

• Department of Conservation
• Environment Bay of Plenty
• Land Information New Zealand
• Ministry of Science and Innovation
• New Zealand Defence Force
• New Zealand Police
• New Zealand Transport Authority
• Statistics New Zealand
• Transpower
• Wellington City Council.

Download the Terms of Reference for the GSC (PDF 18KB).

New Zealand Geospatial Office (NZGO)

The NZGO is headed by the Geospatial Custodian and is the coordinating body for implementing the Strategy. Activities carried out by the NZGO in support of this include:

• promoting the discovery, access and interoperability of geospatial information, particularly through facilitation of a national Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) 
• advising government on policy for geospatial information
• facilitating communication between members of the geospatial community
•  supporting an all-of-government work programme under the Strategy.

 NZGO has a reporting line within Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), as well as to the Geospatial Executives Group in order to maintain a sectoral approach.

Download the Terms of Reference for the NZGO (PDF 27KB).

Visit the LINZ website to find out more about the NZGO or contact us.