Turn on what the job needs and off what it does not: parcels and their labels, survey marks and vectors, plans, services, imagery and more.

Layer Control, with the parcels labelled by appellation and address.

Figure 1. Layer Control, with the parcels labelled by appellation and address.

In this guide

  1. Layer Control — groups, and the options inside them
  2. Parcels — and what to label them with
  3. Marks and vectors
  4. Survey plans
  5. Infrastructure, company data and other layers
  6. The aerial photo — and older Aerial Photos surveys
  7. Label control
  8. Where the data came from, and how current it is
  9. Quick answers

1  Layer Control

Layer Control is the top key on the right-hand toolbar.

Layer Control: a group (1) switches a whole family of layers on or off; with it on, the options inside it (2) appear.

Figure 2. Layer Control: a group (1) switches a whole family of layers on or off; with it on, the options inside it (2) appear.
  • Click a group to switch it on. Green means on. Its options appear underneath.
  • Click an option to switch that one on or off. Options only show while their group is on.
  • What is on here is what you can select with the Info tool, and what prints and exports.
Good to know  GRIP can open with the layers you last had on, or with the defaults each time. That choice is under the Settings cog — see Make GRIP yours.

2  Parcels

Parcels are on from your first sign-in. The options decide which parcels show and what they are labelled with.

  Option What it does
  Non Primary Easements, covenants and other parcels that lie over the primary ones.
  Approved Parcels approved by LINZ but not yet deposited.
  Road & Hydro Road and water parcels.
  Appellation Labels each parcel with its legal description.
  Titles Labels each parcel with its title reference.
  Owners Labels each parcel with its registered owners.
  Area Labels each parcel with its area.
  Address House numbers. This one is available even with the Parcels group off.
  Road Names Street names along the roads.

Appellation, Address and Road Names on.

Figure 3. Appellation, Address and Road Names on.
Tip  Labels crowd quickly. Turn on the one you need, and use the label control (section 7) to hide them sooner as you zoom out.

3  Marks and vectors

Marks are survey marks: geodetic, boundary and non-boundary, each its own option, with labels for the mark’s name, geodetic code and order. Vectors are the measured lines between marks, boundary and non-boundary, with their bearings and distances as labels.

The Marks group on, with its options.

Figure 4. The Marks group on, with its options.

Both can be thinned out with Mark and Vector Filters — by order, datum and length. See Map - Filtering & Display Options.

4  Survey plans

Survey Plans labels the map with plan references. With the Info tool on, click a reference to open the plan, its details, and its images to download.

Survey plan references on the map.

Figure 5. Survey plan references on the map.

5  Infrastructure, company data and other layers

  • Infrastructure — wastewater, water and stormwater from the councils that publish them. The sheet and the DXF credit each owner.
  • Company Data — your own firm’s points. Only your firm sees them.
  • Other — place names, meridional circuits, regional councils, territorial authorities, land districts, rivers and lakes, and contours.

With Contours on, its row carries the contour interval. Auto follows the scale — the map’s, or the sheet’s while Print is open, so the map shows what will print — or choose 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m or 20m to fix it. This is the one place the interval is set.

6  The aerial photo

The globe under Layer Control swaps the basemap between the plain map and the aerial photo. Your first sign-in opens on the aerial photo.

The same place on the aerial photo.

Figure 6. The same place on the aerial photo.

Aerial Photos in Layer Control is different: it lists individual LINZ aerial surveys, the ones that cover what you are looking at first, so you can look at an older or a sharper flight than the basemap’s.

Aerial Photos in Layer Control: switch the group on, and choose a survey from the list (1).

Figure 7. Aerial Photos in Layer Control: switch the group on, and choose a survey from the list (1).

7  Label control

The aa key on the toolbar is the label control. It sets how far out labels, survey marks and vectors stay on as you zoom out — not their size. aa, where GRIP opens, hides them soonest; aA and AA keep them on further out. The scales are in Day 2: see more, select more, measure.

8  Where the data came from

The arrow at the bottom left of the map opens the attribution: who the data on screen came from, and the date the property data is current to.

The attribution: sources, and how current the data is.

Figure 8. The attribution: sources, and how current the data is.
  • LINZ — parcels, titles, marks, vectors, plans and imagery.
  • Councils — underground services.
  • Stats NZ — administrative boundaries.
  • Your firm — company data, visible to your firm only.
Note  GRIP refreshes from LINZ about weekly. For anything that matters legally, use the LINZ links in the panels to reach the official record.

9  Quick answers

I cannot see any parcels.

The Parcels group is off, or you are zoomed out too far for them to draw. Zoom in.

A layer’s options have gone.

Options only show while their group is on. Click the group.

The map is too cluttered to read.

Turn off the labels you do not need, step the label control back to aa, or filter marks and vectors.

My layers reset every time.

Settings cog › Map defaults › Start layers › Last used.

Something on the map is missing from my print.

The sheet is a photograph of the map: a layer that is off is off the sheet too.

Selecting what the layers show, and reading its details, is in Map - Information Tool.

Aerial imagery from LINZ Basemaps, sourced from Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand and licensed for reuse under CC BY 4.0. LINZ copyright

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