Monday, October 17th, 2011
The Government has made changes to the Canterbury Regional Policy Statement to provide certainty to enable local authorities and developers to make land available for post earthquake residential development, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee announced today. "The...
Friday, October 7th, 2011
All data from Glass Earth Gold’s aerial geophysical survey of Otago has now been fully released so the scientific community and general public can benefit from the rich information found in the $5 million project, Glass Earth...
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
The NZGD2000 Government CORS provides the locations of GNSS Continuously Operating Reference Stations operated by GNS Science under the GeoNet project (www.geonet.org.nz). Coordinates are from the LINZ Geodetic Database, in NZGD2000. These are split into several different...
Sunday, August 21st, 2011
Waimakariri MP and Earthquake Recovery spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove wants the Government to take up his members airport bill urgently to allow fast-track development of large areas of affordable Kaiapoi and Christchurch land. Clayton Cosgrove says his Christchurch International...
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
The government of New Zealand has announced a research programme today to use satellite imagery and geospatial mapping to map forests, pastures, rivers and cities across the country. The four-year Land Cover Research Programme was launched with...
Monday, August 1st, 2011
As detailed in the August edition of Landwrap, the spatial parcel improvement (SPI) project captures and adjusts survey data from existing survey plans to improve the accuracy of the cadastre in high priority areas. The two-year project...
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Taking public health research, crime research, hazards management, cultural mapping and city planning to the next level through advanced technologies is the goal of a new and unique trans-Tasman partnership for the University of Canterbury. This evening (Wednesday,...
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The Todd Property Group has awarded Coffey Geotechnics, a subsidiary of global professional services firm Coffey International Limited, as the lead geotechnical consultants for the Long Bay development in New Zealand. The 160 hectare development is one...
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Trimble Navigation’s Christchurch, New Zealand office was gutted by an overnight fire early this week. It took 40 firefighters to control the fire, and several were injured when a floor collapsed. The structure had been lightly damaged...
