Last updated: 22 September 2025Data date: 30 June 2025 Projection: New Zealand Transverse Mercator (NZTM) This layer is based on the dataset Enrolment Scheme Home Zones retrieved from the Ministry of Education. It contains contains the NZ School Enrolment Zone boundaries by the Ministry of Education. This version contains the zones for all education institution types and has been created for map creation/cartographic purposes and does not fully represent the official full extent boundaries. This layer contains all the institution types. If you only want to show a specific (set) of institution types, simply apply a filter. The layer is generalised by Eagle Technology for improved performance on the web, therefore it doesn't fully represent the official boundaries. An Enrolment Scheme Home Zone is a means of limiting the roll to prevent overcrowding at a school, and enables the Ministry of Education to make best use of the current accommodation at schools in the surrounding area. Each enrolment scheme must contain a home zone with clearly defined boundaries. Students who live in the home zone have an absolute right to enrol at the school. (source: https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz). This layer contains the following attributes (see data tab):School IDSchool nameInstitution typeOfficeApproval dateEffective dateThis layer is offered by Eagle Technology (Official Esri Distributor). Eagle Technology offers services that can be used in the ArcGIS platform. The Content team at Eagle Technology updates the layers on a regular basis and regularly adds new content to the Living Atlas. By using this content and combining it with other data you can create new information products quickly and easily. If you have any questions or comments about the content, please let us now at livingatlas@eagle.co.nz.

This dataset provides boundaries of facilities, currently hospitals and schools, within mainland New Zealand originally sourced in early 2021 from a combination of NationalMap and authoritative sources, including NZ Ministry of Education and NZ Ministry of Health.

A facility represents a particular activity such as a hospital or school. A facility boundary represents the extent of the land which appears to be used by a facility. A facility boundary can be different to corresponding cadastral parcel polygons because a facility can span across multiple parcels or be located in only part of a parcel. For example, a parcel owned by the crown can include multiple schools and other facilities such as parks and reserves.

Facility boundaries in this dataset were used to apply hospital and school building names to the NZ Building Outlines dataset published on the LINZ Data Service.

A more detailed description of NZ Facilities can be found in the NZ Facilities Data Dictionary. This Data Dictionary also includes information on how NZ Facilities was used to support the attribution of NZ Building Outlines.

NZ Facilities contains data sourced from NationalMap, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health licensed for reuse under CC BY 4.0.

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NZ Building Outlines - provides current building outlines only, derived from the latest LINZ aerial imagery.

NZ Building Outlines (All Sources) - contains all combinations of building outlines from multiple years of imagery that have existed since the beginning of this dataset, and the dates when each building outline existed in the associated aerial imagery.

APIs and web services This dataset is available via ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS REST services, as well as our standard APIs. LDS APIs and OGC web services

ArcGIS Online map services

This ArcGIS Story Map enables school teachers to give access to the NZ Moderator to Web Maps and Apps that their students have created. The access granted to the moderator is view only. It is recommended that this process be implemented rather than releasing students work to the general public (everyone) for access.

Terms and Conditions for Schools registering for geomentoringYou need to be over the age of 18 to register for the Geomentoring Program.The Geomentoring Program is established by Eagle Technology to create a connection between schools and GIS Professionals who volunteer to help students as Geomentors.Eagle Technology will display your school name and school location on a map that will be available to the public on the Eagle Technology website.Eagle Technology will share all the information you submit to this registration e.g. full name, location, contact details, with any Geomentors who wish to volunteer their time as a Geomentor to the school/s of their choice.Any contact details of Geomentors you receive from Eagle Technology must only be used for the purpose of communicating with a Geomentors in regard with the Geomentoring Program. Such contact details must not be shared to third parties.If you would like to participate in the Geomentoring Program but do not want the provided information illustrated in a map on the Eagle Technology website, please do not complete this registration and contact gisinschools@eagle.co.nz to find out other ways you can register.

Check out the stories that can be told using maps in New Zealand or by New Zealanders at OR for stories from around the world @

This is one of a series of Geoinquiries developed with links to the NZ curriculum.Teachers can learn more at NEW ZEALAND GEOINQUIRIES http://arcg.is/1GPDXe

A mapping tool for New Zealand teachers and students in New Zealand Schools created by Eagle Technology and Esri. It is easy-to-use and includes maps and data curated for social studies and earth science curricula.Based on the National Geographic MapMaker this mapping tool allows New Zealand school teachers and teachers to utilise a simple web based tool in the classroom with New Zealand layers available to do simple GIS tasks in New Zealand or an area close to them.

In 2015 the Ministry of Education withdrew the majority of its school bus network in Tauranga. Bay of Plenty Regional Council is providing a replacement bus service called School Hopper. The changes are due to a Ministry of Education policy based on the growth of Tauranga and access in the urban area to an established public transport network. The School Hopper school bus network is designed by Bay of Plenty Regional Council.The routes service the following schools: Aquinas CollegeBethlehem CollegeGreenpark SchoolGreerton SchoolMaungatapu PrimaryMount Maunganui IntermediateMount Maunganui CollegeOtumoetai CollegeOtumoetai IntermediatePāpāmoa Primary SchoolPāpāmoa CollegeSt Mary SchoolSt Thomas Moore SchoolTauranga Boys CollegeTauranga Girls CollegeTauranga IntermediateTauranga Primary

This Web Feature Layer contains data that will help you determine access to safe water at a regional scale with a global extent. The data for this map was compiled in 2018 and at this time some regional water access information was unknown.Access to safe water is a good example of global inequality.

Global Inequality: where something is not fairly shared out to everyone.

In many areas of the world, we take it for granted that the tap will always provide safe and clean water for drinking, cooking and for washing with. However, more than one billion people worldwide have no choice but to use potentially harmful sources of water for bathing, cooking and even drinking. Every day this has the result of causing the death of more than 6,000 children.

In the developing world more than one billion people have inadequate access to water.

It has been estimated that 12% of the world’s population uses 85% of its water.Student workbook associated with this WebMap

You use your Pepeha to introduce yourself. An important part of your pepeha is the location of your maunga (mountain) and awa (river, lake, water body). In this lesson we are going to take this information and place it on a map, associate images with this location and use digital technology to represent you pepeha.If you don't have a pepeha use https://pepeha.nz/ to create your pepeha.

This interactive web map presents a geospatial visualisation of one of the most devastating natural disasters in recent history—the 2004 Boxing Day Earthquake and Tsunami. The map includes two key layers:Boxing Day Earthquake EpicenterThis layer marks the location of the earthquake that struck off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, on December 26, 2004.Tsunami Energy Distribution LayerUsing a gradient color scheme, this layer illustrates the energy map of the Boxing Day Tsunami. This Web Map was created in 2025 and is for use in the GIS in Schools Boxing Day Tsunami Story Map Lesson.

Investigators use clues to solve a mystery. As map investigators, we'll use clues to solve the mystery of what we are looking at from above.Do you know what a clue is? It's something that helps us figure out a problem solve. On these maps, the clue could be something in the landscape (something natural) or a build feature (something man made). See if you can guess the famous New Zealand sites and places on the maps below. Unsure? There are hints and answers given for each map.

This collection includes all the major map based concepts found in a typical middle or high school earth science course– topography, earthquakes, volcanoes, oceans, weather, and climate. GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the instructor from a single computer/projector classroom arrangement. No installation, fees, or logins are necessary to use these materials and software.Find the student worksheets for these GeoInquiries here

A representation of the geographic density of features on a map.This map displays where crashes occurred within the Wellington / Pōneke Region during the 2014 calendar year.North is at the top of this map.

Designed to be used in the Finding the best site exemplar exercise for the NCEA Geography Standard 91247.The original location of the towns and cities was sourced from Land Information New Zealand. The points within this data set were last updated in 2015.

Use an ArcGIS StoryMap to step through the use of an interactive map that allows you to explore bioclimates, landforms, geology and land cover or the ecological tapestry of the world with your students.

A Web Map of Satellite Imagery taken from a variety of sources. Credit goes to Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, CNES/Airbus DS, USDA, USGS, AeroGRID, IGN, and the GIS User Community for the provision of the imagery.This web map contains the World Imagery (Firefly) layer which presents an alternative view of the World Imagery map designed to be used as a neutral imagery basemap, with de-saturated colors, that is useful for overlaying other brightly styled layers. This map is intended to support 'firefly cartography' and other cartographic designs that require a neutral background, with the spatial context and texture of imagery, to contrast with the foreground thematic layers that are designed to capture the users attention.Content meant to provide spatial context (the basemap) should recede in visual priority, helping to establish the thematic layers that they support (rather than compete with them). There are many ways to sufficiently mute your basemap, but for satellite imagery, de-saturation is a nice option. An image that is all or mostly black and white won’t compete as much with the brightly colored thematic data that it supports. With this map, the color of the imagery is mostly removed at the smallest global scales and then gradually re-introduced at the larger scales, where the full detail of the imagery is available.

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Web Map created to support the NZ GIS in Schools Natural Hazards Earthquakes Story Map.The data displayed in this map is of the most intense, most fatal and most damaging global earthquakes from 2150 BCE to 2016. The earthqaujes represent at least one of the following criteria: Magnitude 8.5 or greaterModified Mercalli Intensity XI or XII1,001 or more fatalities$25 million or more in damage Data source: National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): Significant Earthquake Database. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K

A Choropleth map created from population density figures released by Statistics New Zealand after the 2013 census. All data has been generalized so no one person can be identified.