e-survey best practice

Since Landonline e-survey was developed, LINZ has regularly published information and updates to help surveyors make the most of the system.

This section includes Tips and Hints which span a wide range of topics of interest to surveyors. These are being added to each month, and have been ordered alphabetically to form a full index to make them easy to scan through.

To help you use e-survey as effectively and efficiently as possible, we have created three new categories of information:

• e-survey Technical Best Practice includes tips, hints and links to articles and web pages to help users make the most of e-survey's functionality
• Survey Integration Best Practice has tips, hints and links to articles and web pages focused on how to best get the various survey types into e-survey
• Surveying information contains more general surveying and related topics that users need to stay aware of, such as survey rules updates, rulings etc.

Note: Items have been flagged in each of these sections to indicate their usefulness to (variously) new users, experienced users, and advanced users of e-survey.

To assist you when using e-survey, use the Survey plan index for reference.

LandXML information in this section:

• LandXML information and reference documents - which provide all the required information to produce compliant LandXML files in survey software and Landonline.
• Impact of illegal characters in LandXML files - information on characters, other than alphanumerics, LandXML will not accept and which result in Landonline not allowing the plan to be worked.
• LandXML FAQs

Survey report template

Survey report template and summary information set for the 2010 Rules

Pre-validation information:

• See information on pre-validation and survey rule tests.

Seeking Clarification or Review of a Survey Requisition

• Requisition clarification and review process
• Review of a Survey Requisition form - (doc 42KB)

Exception request

• When to raise an exception request

Contacting LINZ - 2012

• Handout - brief information about contacting Subject Matter Experts and making e-Survey requests. Please note that choosing the correct request type will result in your query being dealt with in an appropriate time frame.
• Cadastral Survey Datasets - Getting the Basics Right. This paper was presented at the Survey and Spatial Sciences Conference 2011 (SSSC2011) and published in the December edition of the Survey Quarterly (informationa bout the Customer Strategy, the roles of staff at LINZ, how to contact Subject Matter experts etc).

Risk-based acceptance process & FAQs

• Risk-based acceptance framework for Cadastral Survey Datasets
• Risk-based acceptance framework FAQs
• Download the dataset Profile Lodgement Form (DPLF) template