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NZ’s authoritative and open digital basemap service for LINZ and the public.

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Basemaps

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A digital basemap provides a consistent background detail necessary to orient location and add to aesthetic appeal. Basemaps can be made up of streets, parcels, boundaries (country, regional, and city boundaries), shaded relief of a digital elevation model, waterways, hydrography, aerial and satellite imagery. Basemaps can be used as desktop, website or mobile phone application components, or as a 3rd party layers within a GIS or desktop mapping application.

License

This system is licensed under the MIT License, except where otherwise specified. See the LICENSE file for more details.

Development

For background information about the basemaps service and its development see Documentation

Building

For building and contributing guide see Contributing

Changes

For a history of basemaps changes see the Changelog