News
Landonline highly commended at Computerworld awards
A delegation from LINZ attended the Computerworld awards on 28 October as one of four finalists in the Excellence in the Use of ICT in Government award for the Landonline 100% e-lodgement programme. Unfortunately LINZ didn't win, but was highly commended.
The judges of the awards noted the system deserved "credit for driving 100% compliance to the use of Landonline as part of the long term transformation from manual processing." And that LINZ's approach to 100% e-lodgement "demonstrated both vision and fortitude."
LINZ's Chief Information Officer Debbie Ward said despite not winning, being recognised in the finals "represents the hard work of dedicated LINZ staff and Landonline customers that got us to successfully implement 100% e-lodgement. It is an example of LINZ's drive to use technology to improve our services to New Zealanders."
This is the first time LINZ has entered the Computerworld awards. The Computerworld website features a story on the award's finalists.
The winning entry went to Department of Corrections for their initiative to block cell phone calls within prison property ensuring nearby properties were not affected.
Wellington records on the move
During the next few months, many of the historical land records held in LINZ's Wellington reading room will be moved and re-housed at Archives New Zealand (Archives).
The move is part of a broader LINZ strategy to ensure long term preservation of the records, ensure public access to the records and prepare for the closure of LINZ's Wellington processing centre in April 2010.
Users of the Wellington reading room may wish to plan land records-related research around the dates of the move, because access to records will be limited as items are checked, packaged and re-shelved. A factsheet (pdf 284KB) detailing the availability of records, and where they will be moved to, can be found on the LINZ website.
In Wellington's case, most records will be transferred to Archives (10 Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, Wellington) where they can be viewed free of charge. From early February, records at Archives will be searchable on Archway, Archives' online catalogue.
Copies of records retained at Recall, or transferred to another LINZ office, can still be requested via the LINZ website.
LINZ will retain custody of records still needed to conduct its business as well as some of the more specialist archival records. For example, Wellington surveyors' field books and traverse sheets will be transferred to LINZ's Hamilton processing centre.
As well as complying with the requirements of the Public Records Act 2005, the move will ensure storage arrangements are appropriate for the historical land records most often accessed by historians and other researchers. Archives operates secure and climate-controlled environments to protect records, with staff available to help researchers access the material.
During the next 18 months, LINZ will also be closing the Auckland and Dunedin processing centres. Most of the records from the research rooms at these offices will be transferred to the local Archives office.
Landonline
Reminder – Landonline unavailable this weekend
As advised in the September edition of Landwrap, Landonline Release 3.3 is scheduled to be implemented during the weekend of 31 October/1 November 2009.
This means that Landonline will not be available on Saturday 31 October.
Landonline and Customer Support will resume normal service from 7am on Monday 2 November.
See article Countdown to Release 3.3 in this edition of Landwrap for information about the upcoming changes and improvements to Landonline.
If you have any queries, please contact Customer Support on 0800 ONLINE (0800 665 463).
Countdown to Release 3.3
Landonline Release 3.3 is on track for 2 November 2009. As advised in the September edition of Landwrap, this release contains enhancements affecting all Landonline customers.
"Release 3.3 has something for everyone," says Kerri Osborne, Manager Customers. "Surveyors will notice time-savings with the new functionality for plan generation when working with extra large or complex plans. They'll be able to open layout sheets in background mode themselves without having to involve LINZ.
"Conveyancing customers will now be able to view the reason an instrument or dealing has stepped down to LODGE from Workspace. Previously, if they were expecting the dealing to AUTO REG and it stepped down, no reason was given."
For territorial authorities, enhancements to TA e-certification include the addition of the Section 245 certificate, the ability to edit the Section 220 certificate, and reformatting of the amalgamation condition certificate.
See article Landonline Release 3.3 overview in the September edition of Landwrap for more information about the changes.
Detailed information will be available in the Landonline System Updates section on this website from 2 November.
Regulatory
Answers to Rules questions
More than 200 questions from surveying professionals were captured at the seminars held around the country recently to introduce the new Rules for Cadastral Survey 2010.
Questions covered many topics including accuracy standards, datums, parcels, centreline easements, appellations, boundaries, permanent reference marks, witnessing, monumentation and occupation.
As advised in the September editon of Landwrap, answers to questions raised are now available in the Introducing the new Rules for Cadastral Survey 2010 section on the LINZ website.
