The Department of Survey and Land Information (DOSLI) is a former department of the

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. It was formed in April 1987 as a restructuring of the

Department of Lands and Survey The Department of Lands and Survey was a former government department in New Zealand that managed the administration of Crown land and its survey and mapping requirements. History Establishment The department was established in 1876 with the appo ...

. The Department of Lands and Survey was established in 1876 with a wide range of responsibilities, including survey, health and tourist resorts, immigration, Crown lands and roads. Forests and agriculture were added in 1886. Over the years, many of these responsibilities passed to other departments, and by the 1980s Lands and Survey's core responsibilities included survey,

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, mapping, lands and deeds and Crown land. In the 1987 restructuring, the Department of Survey and Land Information was set up to provide government civil and military survey mapping and land information services. Land development activities were placed with a

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. Conservation management roles were placed with new departments. In July 1996, the Department of Survey and Land Information was itself restructured into

Land Information New Zealand Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with geographical information and surveying functions as well as handling land titles, and managing Crown land and property. The minist ...

, vested with core government land-related regulatory and purchase functions, while the former department's commercial activities were vested with Terralink NZ Ltd, then a state-owned enterprise and now a private company,

Terralink International Terralink International was a New Zealand owned and operated provider of geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping solutions. In 2014 it was bought by Property IQ, and has now become CoreLogic NZ Limited; 60% owned by the US-based CoreLog ...

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External links

Land information handbook
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