NZ GIS Wiki
Welcome to the NZ GIS Wiki. This site is a practical New Zealand focused knowledge base for people who use, teach, manage, publish, or buy GIS and spatial data services.
Start here
- New to GIS in New Zealand: Start
- Find data sources and portals: Data and Services
- Coordinate systems, datums, heights, and transformations: Spatial Reference and Standards
- Step by step tasks and playbooks: Workflows
- Platform guidance (ArcGIS plus open and mixed stacks): Platforms
- Sector specific packs: Sectors
- Operating models, governance, procurement, privacy, security: Governance and Practice
- Training, events, careers, and how to contribute: Community and Industry
What this site covers
- The New Zealand geospatial ecosystem, including national agencies, CRIs, councils, and industry
- Where to find authoritative datasets and services, how they are published, and how to use them
- New Zealand spatial reference systems, vertical datums, transformations, and common pitfalls
- Practical workflows for acquiring, preparing, analysing, and publishing spatial data
- Platform tracks, with an ArcGIS in New Zealand focus plus open and mixed stacks
- Sector playbooks for local government, hazards, environment, marine, infrastructure, and more
- Governance and practice for stewardship, privacy, security, and procurement
Recommended paths
Students and new starters
- Start overview
- Glossary
- Quickstarts: QGIS, ArcGIS Pro, Web mapping
- Core standards: Datums and CRS, Transformations
GIS practitioners
- Data discovery and access: Find data, Access methods
- Data quality and readiness: Evaluate quality, Prepare data
- CRS and height correctness: CRS selection, Vertical datums
- Publishing: Publishing overview, Service design
Data publishers and organisations
- Publishing checklists: Compliance checklists
- Metadata: Metadata overview, Minimum metadata
- Interoperability: Interoperability overview, WMS, WMTS
- Governance and operating models: Governance overview, Documentation overview
How the site is organised
- Ecosystem explains who does what and how the system fits together
- Data and Services is organised by publisher types, access methods, and data themes
- Spatial Reference and Standards focuses on New Zealand correctness and interoperability
- Workflows are task based and tool neutral first
- Platforms covers ArcGIS in New Zealand plus open and mixed stacks
- Sectors are packs that connect datasets, standards, workflows, and platform patterns
- Governance and Practice covers procurement, security, privacy, quality, and operating models
- Community and Industry covers learning, events, careers, and contributing
Contributing
If you want to contribute content, corrections, or links: