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Our GIS web services

GIS (Geographical Information Systems) is a data-bank of maps and geographical analyses. The system combines layers of information about a location for a better understanding of that location. GIS can solve a range of real-world problems as outlined below.

Napier City Council’s GIS

A GIS (Geographic Information System) is used to display, manipulate, and analyse geographic information.

GIS can be used to visualise data from databases, allowing easier interpretation of that data.

View public GIS website View secured GIS website

GIS users can also download our data or connect to it by using our web services.

Download GIS Data

What is GIS and how does it work?

GIS stands for Geographical Information Systems. Nearly all of the geographical information Napier City Council are using now are stored digitally and is used by a GIS to create maps and geographical analyses.

GIS represents features of the real world as geographic layers. For instance Roads and Primary Land Parcels.

A GIS combines layers of information about a location to give you a better understanding of that location.

GIS can also be used to solve real-world problems including:

  • verifying location,
  • creating planning models,
  • monitoring environmental conditions.
  • routing and tracking vehicles,
  • estimate 100 year floods,
  • and much more!

Tools for map display, query, geometric processing, or analysis are built into GIS software packages which can be tailored for specific needs.
GIS data most commonly exists in one of two formats: vector or raster.

  • Vector data consists of discrete features such as points (manholes), lines (roads), or polygons (parcel boundaries).
  • Raster data consists of continuous data made up of pixels (Aerial Photography).

How does Napier City Council use GIS?

Napier City Council's City Strategy and Infrastructure Departments both utilise GIS to help carry out their corporate functions.

The City Strategy Department uses GIS to create, manage and analyse planning and regulatory information (Building Consents, Resource Consents, Subdivisions, Hazard Information, Dogs, etc).

The Infrastructure Department uses GIS to create, manage and analyse utilities information (Sewer, Stormwater and Water infrastructure). It is a key tool for Utilities Asset Management.

Many of the maps on this website are generated from Council's GIS.

Description of the GIS Data portal

The portal offers downloads to these formats:

NameDescription
Comma Separated Values (CSV) Text (or ASCII) file with each column separated by a comma
AutoDesk DXF (DXF) For CAD programs. Please note that the attributes will not be included!
ESRI Shape File (Zip) Most common GIS format.
OGC GeoPackage (geopkg) Open GIS Consortium standard
Microsoft Excel (XLS) For Excel -97 and later versions.

The portal also offers downloads in these reference systems:

Full NameAlso known as
Hawke’s Bay Transverse Mercator HBTM (EPSG:2108)
New Zealand Transverse Mercator NZTM (EPSG:2193)
World Geodetic System 1984 WGS84 (EPSG:4326)

These are the most common reference systems that are used in New Zealand today.

An option of downloading data is to use the data as a service. This saves bandwidth, disk space and the data will always be up to date.

Web Services

What Data Can I Download?

This page enables you to download and use Napier City Council GIS data in your own GIS application, or within Google Earth. You are able to use a live feed or save and use offline in your own time.

There are three methods available on this page, WMS, WFS or KML (see a brief description of each method below).

All data unless specifically stated is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 New Zealand License.

For comprehensive National Datasets, visit the LINZ Data Service. The LINZ data service enables downloads in GIS formats, CAD formats, Google Earth and CSV.

What is a WMS Service?

A Web Map Service (WMS) is a technology that allows you to retrieve GIS data direct from us over the internet, and display the data as a raster image in your own GIS applications.

This innovation is based on a specification from the Open GIS Consortium (OGC).

Accessing our WMS Service

To access our WMS service use the following address in your GIS application:

  • http://www.gis.napier.govt.nz/geoserver/wms?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities

What is a WFS Service?

A Web Feature Service (WFS) is a technology that allows you to retrieve GIS data direct from us over the internet, and display the data in your own GIS applications.

WFS is similar to WMS which allows a client to overlay map images from multiple services over the internet.

But while a WMS Server provides raster based maps, a WFS Server provides raw coordinate data that the client uses to produce a map.

This innovation is based on a specification from the Open GIS Consortium (OGC)

Accessing our WFS Service

To access our WFS service use the following address in your GIS application:

  • https://data.napier.govt.nz/geo/wfs?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities

Select the example below to view the URL of the Address Point WFS: Napier City Council AddressPoints

What is a KML Service?

KML is a technology that allows you toretrieve GIS data direct from us over the internet, and display the data in Google Earth. This innovation is based on a specification from Google.

To access the KML, first

  • select the layer’s KML link and save the file on your computer
  • Open Google Earth
  • Select File > Open…
  • Go to the path where the KML has been downloaded (if you are not sure where it’s saved, try your Downloads folder first)
  • Select the kml (or kmz) file and press Open
  • Zoom to Napier to see the layer above the aerial image.
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