WELCOME to the GIS Mapping Website of the Whangarei District Council

The WDC GIS website has:
  • Support for Internet Explorer and Firefox
  • Colour (and Black & White) Aerial photographs of the entire District with the legal parcels and other information on top
  • Obvious Search and Locate by Roadname, LegalParcel (DPs) , Maori Name, and Placenames
  • Map screen resizing to cater for people with rural (slow) connections or Broadband (fast) connections
  • Large and nice prints!
  • Obvious Zoom in and out buttons on the right hand side
  • Popup information with the cursor on the map
  • Property and Rates information in a new format
  • The legends for the GIS website symbology have been updated to align more closely with the maps. The legends can be found as a link below the Map window or here as a PDF or a JPG.

Click here to Enter the WDC GIS Website

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Please spend a few minutes to examine the site, experiment with all the buttons, try all the searches with examples, open up the other Layers, and read the Help. We welcome comments and feedback, send to WDC GIS Manager.
GIS News

Item 1: Parcel Areas

Please be aware that the area as reported in the Property Identify or the popup is a GIS geometric approximate area, not the Certificate of Title Area. Clicking further through to the Rates Information and Assessments will display a Rating Area. For single parcel rating assessments, this will be the CT area , but for multiple rating parcels, like farm blocks, it will be a Total area as covered by the assessment valuation. Consult your CT and survey plan for the exact area.

Item 2: Updated information

The Data has been updated this month, June 2008, which includes new parcels cadastres, roads, District Plan changes, new subdivision approvals, addresses, pipelines, etc.

Item 3: Insurance Companies

Do not use the GIS website and the area measure tool to measure house sizes for Fire Insurance premium purposes. The aerial photos may not show the current house configuration and it is not accurate enough for insurance purposes.

Item 4: Archeological Sites

The archeological sites show round circles for GPS’d sites and squares for older data. The site size is NOT indicated by the size of the circle or square but that it is approximately in the vicinity. A site visit should be undertaken for more exact information. Field notes can be obtained from the Whangarei office of DOC. Quote the NZAA metric ID.

HINTS:

Please try out using the Navigate tool Navigate tool image. and double clicking on a parcel or just holding your cursor over (hover-over) a parcel until you get the popup. Then click on the ‘Click for Rates Details’ link. Follow any other links on the Assessment record to see a breakdown of the Rates.

This tool can also be used to ‘hover-over’ other layers and especially on contour lines to show the Elevation information. To turn on the Contours, click on the Land Resources Tab, and then on the Layers tab and then on the Contours ‘tic’ box.