Please read the Notes below:
Before Continuing to the Maps/Aerials mapping program, EMap.
Council will soon change the Mapping program to Dekho by ESRI Australia. The term Dekho means "to look" and as it's name suggests will give us the ability to look at much more information. Initially the layers will be as you see in the existing mapping program.
We encourage you to please take the the time to try using the Dekho program and send us your feedback if you have suggestions.
Link to Dekho: http://gisdekho.marlborough.govt.nz/DekhoPublic
Regards
MDC Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Team
On 1 January 2010 Marlborough District Council's mapping systems will reflect the change to LINZ New Zealand Transverse Mercator (NZTM) projection. Council is updating its mapping and database systems to accept coordinates directly from the new national NZTM coordinate system. The coordinates are distinctly different in their appearance and will display on Council's internal and external mapping.
Please ensure any correspondence such as coordinate information supply to Council is provided in terms of the NZTM coordinate system. Also, where latitude, longitude values are provided, these should be accompanied by detail of the format and datum. The format will be either degrees/minutes/seconds or degrees/minutes or decimal degrees. The datum will vary but most likely be WGS84, NZGD2000 or NZGD1949 etc.
To facilitate any new data entry, please also consider how this change may affect your organisation or processes in time for your transition. There are coordinate conversion methods available through the LINZ website or modern GIS and CAD programmes.
LINZ has said this is one of the most significant changes to New Zealand's official topographical maps since the 1930s, with a new map series, Topo50, launched on 23 September 2009. To find out more about these changes please visit the LINZ website: http://www.linz.govt.nz/
If you have any questions regarding the supply of coordinate information to Council please contact Customer Services.
