Faster Viewing Option For New Zealand TopoOnline Coming Soon

Yesterday morning Land Information New Zealand launched an updated look and feel to their website.

A new-look Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) website has been launched today, to provide easier access to information about and held by LINZ.

The site has thousands of pages of information on topics to do with New Zealand’s land and seabed: from geodetic formulae and information on titles; to topographical and hydrographical mapping, and information on Crown property.

The press release can be found here: http://www.linz.govt.nz/about-linz/… To go with this New Zealand TopoOnline was updated to match the similar look and feel. 

With TopoOnline being updated to match the new look and feel, LINZ announced that a new faster viewing option for TopoOnline is coming soon.

Later this year, you will be able to choose to either view NZTopoOnline with the NZTM2000 cache mapping option which will allow faster viewer at 1:25,000 scale or continue to use NZTopoOnline with full functionality, such as turning layers on or off.

TopoOnline currently makes use of ArcIMS technology to publish up the maps to the web. With the new faster viewing option for TopoOnline, ArcGIS Server will be used. The data will be cached and served up as rasters making it fast for users to browse.

Information on this new faster viewing option can be found here: http://www.linz.govt.nz/topography/…