FarmsOnLine - GIS Layer(s) for Landuse

17 May 2011 at 15:17 (14 years ago)

GIS files containing land use as collected and held by the FarmsOnLine web map portal https://farmsonline.maf.govt.nz/ This is information sourced from the public domain (physical location, land use and LINZ title information).

Opening this data would solve the problem of…

Currently we hold no information on horticultural land use in our region. We would like to plan for growth in this area.

Opening this data would solve this problem by…

Releasing this data would allow us to improve on it at a local level.

Releasing the data would also allow innovative re-use to encourage economic growth.

Response from
Ministry for Primary Industries

18 June 2011 at 11:13 11:13 am (14 years ago)

Status Data restricted by Legislation

Comments The Farms Online Data is collected as a function of the Biosecurity Act and may only be used for this purpose under the current legislation. Currently we cannot release information that has not been sourced from the public domain, unless:

the requested information falls within a biosecurity purpose under the Act, or

the Director-General has received permission from the person (or their agent) to whom the information relates, to release the information, or

legislation (other than the Official Information Act) requires access to be provided

MPI recognises the value of, and interest in, the information and will take this into consideration in any future review of the legislation.