Data Portals/data.govt.nz

data.govt.nz

New Zealand's open data catalog, indexing public sector datasets from across government, complementing the LINZ Data Service.

data.govt.nz is New Zealand's open data catalog, indexing datasets published by government agencies and councils. It is the central discovery point for New Zealand public-sector data across many themes.

For geospatial work it complements the LINZ Data Service: where LINZ provides authoritative topographic, property, and address data, data.govt.nz surfaces the broader catalog of statistical, environmental, and administrative datasets. Most data is released under Creative Commons Attribution.

Frequently Asked Questions

data.govt.nz is the general open data catalog, while the LINZ Data Service provides authoritative topographic, property, address, and hydrographic data.

Most datasets use Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY), free for reuse with attribution.

Government agencies and local councils across New Zealand.

Details

AgencyNew Zealand Government
LevelNational
RegionOceania
CoverageNew Zealand
LicenseCC BY (mostly)
Formats
CSVGeoJSONShapefileAPI
Update FrequencyContinuous
Categories
New ZealandNationalOpen Data
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