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GDC stormwater drains managed by the GDC stormwater utilities team. These drains are separate from Rural drains which are managed by the GDC Rivers and Drainage team.

GDC road closure lines exported from RAMM. This data is LIVE and updated regularly.

For more information view the supporting documentationDownload the data from ArcGIS OnlineGisborne District Council (GDC) requested Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research (MWLR) produce morphometric landslide-to-stream connectivity layers for rainfall-induced shallow landslides to support future land use planning in the region.The morphometric connectivity layers represent the spatial probability of runout from a shallow landslide reaching the stream network. These layers are based on statistical models developed by MWLR as part of the Smarter Targeting of Erosion Control (STEC) MBIE Endeavour program. Initial work by Spiekermann et al. (2022) described an earlier version of the model. Subsequently, this modelling approach has been further developed using an expanded landslide dataset (Tsyplenkov et al. 2023).In July 2024, GDC contracted MWLR to produce an update to the landslide connectivity layers that incorporated the gully spatial data. This new work involved:including the mapped gullies as part of the digital channel network and updating the landslide-to-stream connectivity modelling to incorporate gullies as a ‘target’adding the mapped gully features to the updated class-based raster layer and showing gullies as a separate class

Wastewater assets for the Gisborne District Council. Includes wastewater mains, laterals and nodes (manholes, valves and pump stations). This data is maintained by Gisborne District Council and updated weekly.

This layer shows the extent of Lidar coverage across the Tairawhiti region and the individual Lidar tile numbers. Lidar was captured for the whole of the Tairawhiti region throughout 2019 and 2020. Lidar tiles are available as classified point cloud Las format, NZVD2016 datum and NZTM projection. The Lidar tiles also include information regarding the date flown and survey accuracy.Use this layer to identify the Lidar tiles that relate to your site. Lidar tiles are available upon request by emailing landinfo@gdc.govt.nz

Watercourses includes every river, stream, passage, and channel on the ground whether natural or not through which water flows whether continuously or intermittently in a defined course; but does not include any piped water supply, tunnel, conduit, aqueduct, or water race forming part of the reticulation of or for any water supply area or water race district or irrigation district or any water table on a public highway which is for the sole purpose of controlling the run—off from the carriageway.

Background to the Morphum Layer 2022

Under the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2020 all regional councils are required to map Natural Inland Wetlands in their region. Gisborne District Council engaged Morphum Environmental Ltd to undertake an initial desktop-based mapping assessment of Tairāwhiti wetlands. This assessment, undertaken between 2021 and 2022, is Council’s first step toward satisfying NPS-FM wetland requirements, which include the creation of a geospatial inventory of all Natural Inland Wetlands in Tairāwhiti.Methodology

The Morphum Layer used Aerial imagery and LiDAR elevation data, as well as existing wetland geometry databases and other geospatial data to determine indicative wetland sites.

The wetland assessment considered definitions and classification from the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (NPS-FM) and the Wetland Types in New Zealand document (Johnson and Gerbeaux, 2004).

Mapping effort was focused on identifying natural wetlands rather than artificial or improved pasture type wetlands. Wetland polygons were smoothed using the Polynomial Approximation with Exponential Kernel (PAEK) method with a smoothing tolerance of 20 m.

Farm ponds smaller than 1,000 m² were not mapped, and some wetlands highly likely to fall under the pasture exclusion criteria or former wetlands were excluded.

Approximately 3500 individual wetlands were delineated and classified across the Motū, Waipaoa, Waiapu, Hangaroa-Ruakituri, Uawa, Waimata, and Wharekahika-Waikura catchments.ResultsRemotely delineating and classifying wetlands is challenging due to the ecological variability and transitional nature of these ecosystems. Wetland boundaries fluctuate both seasonally and annually as changing weather conditions affect the water table and vegetation present.

As this is a provisional assessment, not all of these sites will be wetlands under the NPS-FM. The Morphum Layer should be viewed as showing indicative wetland sites—a starting point for further investigation and discussion of wetland extent, class, and wetland values. The next step is to determine which sites meet that definition.

Data delivered by Morphum Environmental August 2022

Gisborne Street Addresses. Last updated Jan 2025. This layer shows those address points which are actual property addresses. This layer is a subset of the complete Gisborne District Council address dataset, which includes holding addresses and file addresses for locations that require an address, but are not on a legal property. For example, utility assets which are in the road carriageway or at sea.

Electricity transmission network for the Gisborne district as identified in the Tairawhiti Resource Management Plan. Includes 50kv and 110 kv lines.

The land overlays are developed from amalgamated units from the land use capability (LUC) assessment of the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI) Gisborne East Coast Region, Second Edition, June 1999. In the NZLRI the maximum erosion severity has been assessed for each LUC unit and this is based on the geology, soil type, steepness, climate and vegetation cover. The land overlays comprise the following LUC units: Land Overlay 1 Classes I-IV and VIe1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8 inclusive, Land Overlay 2 Balance of Class VI, Land Overlay 3 (including 3A) Classes VII & VIII (see C7.1.5 for detailed units).

Erosion is the natural process of soil and rock wearing away and being moved through the landscape. Erosion includes sheet, wind, creep, slump, flow, rill, earthflow, gully, tunnel gully and stream erosion. In areas undisturbed by human activity, the rate of erosion is determined by geology and weather. Land uses, particularly those that reduce vegetation cover or disturb the soil can lead to a much faster rate of erosion. This is especially heightened in naturally unstable areas where even relatively minor landuse activities can have major impacts. Erosion that has been increased by human action is called induced or accelerated erosion and despite the voluntary erosion control efforts of many landowners and kaitiaki, this remains the major landuse issue in the district that also impacts on the district’s waterways and coastal seabed and key assets such as roading.

Scheduled fresh water bodies throughout the Gisborne district as identified in the Tairawhiti Resource Management Plan.

Tairāwhiti Civil Defence and Emergency management centres throughout the Gisborne district. Includes locations for Civil Defence headquarters, welfare and community centres.

There are over 45 high profile recreational reserves in the Gisborne region, with the majority in Gisborne city. There are 44 playgrounds, 101 garden areas covering 8400 square metres and 6583 metres of paths and tracks. The parks and open spaces network includes public parks and reserves, sports grounds, cycle and walkways, coastal foreshore and beaches.

Water supply assets - includes water mains, water laterals, fire hydrants, valves, backflows and meters. This data is maintained by Gisborne District Council and updated weekly.

Gisborne District Council refuse collection and transfer stations. For some areas of Gisborne (mainly urban) rubbish and recycling is collected on the same day of each week. Refuse stations are available throughout the whole region.

A Statutory Acknowledgement is a formal recognition by the Crown of the mana of tangata whenua over a specified area. It recognises the particular cultural, spiritual, historical and traditional association of an iwi with the site, which is identified as a Statutory Area.

Statements of statutory acknowledgements are set out in Treaty of Waitangi settlement legislation.

Statutory Areas only relate to Crown-owned land and include areas of land, geographic features, lakes, rivers, wetlands, and coastal marine areas.

Gisborne District Council must have regard to statutory acknowledgements relating to a statutory area in deciding, under section 95E of the Resource Management Act 1991, whether the trustee is an affected person in respect of an application for a resource consent for an activity within, adjacent to, or that directly affects the statutory area.

Locations of Gisborne District Council operated cemeteries throughout the Gisborne district.

Gisborne District Council maintains 12 cemeteries in the Gisborne district. The main cemetery is Taruheru Cemetery in Nelson Road.

There are a number of urupa and private cemeteries throughout Gisborne that are not maintained by Gisborne District Council and not included as part of this map service.

Council maintained walkways, mountain-biking and fitness trails. Also other popular walking tracks and cycling trails throught Gisborne district. This dataset references the LINZ walkways dataset.

Gisborne areas susceptible to coastal erosion, coastal flooding and/or tsunami (ASCE) layer as identified in a 2015 study commissioned by the Gisborne District Council.

The Gisborne District coastline extends some 500 km from Takararoa in the south to Omaruparoa in the North and comprises some 138 km of sandy and gravel beaches and 202 km of cliffed coastline. An Area Sensitive to Coastal Hazards (ASCH) line was developed by Gibb between 1994 and 1999 and shows areas that may be adversely affected by coastal erosion, coastal flooding and/or tsunami. The line is applied to areas where more comprehensive and locally specific Coastal Erosion Hazard Assessment have not been undertaken and indicates where prospective developers may be required to undertake further research on coastal hazards. New research is being undertaken on effects of tsunami and coastal flooding in the Gisborne District that will replace those components of the ASCH

Gisborne District Council areas susceptible to coastal erosion (ASCE) as identified by the Tonkin & Taylor study in 2015.