Click anything on the map — a parcel, a mark, a vector, a plan — and read what LINZ holds about it, then follow the links from one record to the next.

A parcel selected, and its details in the panel.

Figure 1. A parcel selected, and its details in the panel.

In this guide

  1. Selecting — click, shift-click, and Back
  2. Choose what can be selected
  3. A parcel
  4. A title — estate, owners, interests, parcels
  5. An instrument
  6. A survey plan — images to download, and Filter Survey
  7. A mark — coordinates in your datum
  8. A vector
  9. How current is this?
  10. Quick answers

1  Selecting

Selecting is on from the moment the map opens: the i on the right-hand toolbar is lit. Click anything on the map and its details open in the panel on the right.

  • Click a parcel, mark, vector, plan reference or company data point.
  • Shift-click to add more of the same kind: the panel lists them as Select Results, and highlights them on the map.
  • If several things sit under the click, the panel lists them. Choose one.
  • Back, at the top of the panel, returns to the previous record.
Good to know  Only layers that are switched on can be selected. If a click finds nothing, check Layer Control.

2  Choose what can be selected

The five buttons at the top of the panel. A lit button means that kind of thing can be selected.

Figure 2. The five buttons at the top of the panel. A lit button means that kind of thing can be selected.

Click Marks, Vectors, Parcels, Survey Plans or Company Data to stop that kind being selected — handy when a parcel keeps getting in the way of the mark you are trying to click. Click again to turn it back on.

3  A parcel

Parcel Information.

Figure 3. Parcel Information.
  Row What it tells you
  Appellation The legal description. The plan number in it is a link to the survey plan.
  Address Every street address on the parcel.
  Surveyed / Calculated Area The area on the record, and the area of the shape GRIP holds.
  Parcel Intent, Status, Id What the parcel is for, whether it is current, and its Landonline id.
  Titles Each title over the parcel. Click the number to open it; Grip opens a free preview, LINZ the official record.
  Owners The registered owners on those titles.
Note  The link between parcels and titles comes from LINZ and is not perfect. Where it matters, confirm it on the title itself.

4  A title

Click a title number in the parcel panel.

Title Information: reference and links (1), the estate and its registered owners (2), interests (3).

Figure 4. Title Information: reference and links (1), the estate and its registered owners (2), interests (3).
  • Title Reference — with the free Grip preview and the LINZ link to buy the official title.
  • Prior References — the titles this one came from. Click one to trace a property back.
  • Valuation Reference — with a link to QV.
  • Estate — type, area, legal description, and the registered owners with their shares.
  • Current Interests and Historic Interests — the memorials: easements, mortgages, transfers. Click to unfold.
  • Parcels — every parcel on the title, each with a button to zoom to it.

5  An instrument

Unfold Current Interests and click an instrument’s number.

Instrument Information.

Figure 5. Instrument Information.

The panel shows the instrument’s number, type, status and lodgement date, and the titles and parcels it affects — useful for seeing everything an easement or covenant touches. The download button saves the list as a spreadsheet, and the LINZ link leads to the official document.

6  A survey plan

Click the plan number in a parcel’s appellation, a plan reference on the map (with the Survey Plans layer on), or search for the plan.

Survey Plan Information.

Figure 6. Survey Plan Information.
  • Details — reference, description, dates, land district. Older plans carry less.
  • Images — survey plan and title plan images to download, free, for most plans before 2002; the Landonline link buys the current image.
  • Image dates tell you whether LINZ holds a newer scan than the one GRIP has.

Filter Survey shows only this plan’s marks and vectors on the map: measured distances in red, measured bearings in blue, adopted and calculated values in black. Clear Filter ends it.

Filter Survey: only this plan’s marks and vectors.

Figure 7. Filter Survey: only this plan’s marks and vectors.

7  A mark

Mark Information.

Figure 8. Mark Information.
  • Name, Node ID, Type, Condition, Order, Geodetic Code, Description.
  • Coordinates — horizontal, in the datum chosen at the bottom right of the map; change the datum and they change with it. Heights with their vertical order and datum.
  • Survey plans that measured to this mark, each a link.

8  A vector

Vector Information.

Figure 9. Vector Information.

A vector’s panel gives its id and accuracy, the marks at each end, and every survey plan that observed it — bearing, distance, whether each was measured or adopted, and the equipment used.

Tip  Vectors are thin and sit on parcel boundaries. Turn Parcels off in the buttons at the top of the panel and they are easy to click.

9  How current is this?

  • GRIP refreshes from LINZ about weekly. The date is in the attribution, bottom left of the map.
  • LINZ withholds some records, protected titles among them.
  • The panels show what the source data holds, errors included. Where it matters, follow the LINZ link to the official record.

10  Quick answers

Clicking does nothing.

The i on the toolbar is off, or the layer is off, or that kind is switched off in the panel’s buttons.

I keep selecting the parcel instead of the mark.

Turn Parcels off in the buttons at the top of the panel.

The owners shown are out of date.

Data is about a week behind LINZ at most. Use the LINZ link on the title.

A plan has no image.

GRIP holds free images for most plans before 2002. For later plans, the Landonline link buys the current image.

The mark’s coordinates are in the wrong system.

Change the datum at the bottom right of the map.

Getting to a record in the first place is in Finding & Searching.

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