ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata Standard Version
2007
Spatial Representation Info
Vector Spatial Representation
Topology Level Code
geometryOnly
Geometric Object Type Code
composite
Integer
68
Reference System Info
Reference System
Reference System Identifier
Identifier
Code
2193
Code Space
EPSG
Version
8.6.2
Identification Info
Data Identification
Citation
Citation
Title
MWARD2020_V1_00
Date
Presentation Form
Presentation Form Code
mapDigital
Abstract
This dataset is the definitive set of Māoriward boundaries for 2020 as defined by the territorial authorities and/or Local Government Commission but maintained by Stats NZ (the custodian).The Local Electoral Act 2001 provides that Māoriwards may be established in territorial authorities. The statutory provisions for establishing Māori wards are set out in sections 19Z to 19ZH of the Local Electoral Act 2001. Establishing Māori wards can be achieved by a local authority resolution or a favourable outcome of a poll of electors.The first Māori ward was established by representation review in 2019 and appears in the 2020 geographic boundaries released by Stats NZ. The first Māori ward to be created is Wairoa Māori ward (02901)in the Wairoa District.Māori wards are numbered based on their corresponding territorial authority. Each Māoriward has a unique five-digit code. The first three digits represent the territorial authority that the Māoriward lies within. The following two digits are sequential and represent the number of Māoriwards within a territorial authority. Māoriward boundaries are defined at meshblock level. Names are provided with and without tohutō/macrons. The name field without macrons is suffixed ‘ascii’This generalised version has been simplified for rapid drawing and is designed for thematic or web mapping purposes.Digital boundary data became freely available on 1 July 2007
Purpose
This dataset is the definitive version of the annually released Māori ward boundaries as at 1 January 2020 as defined by the territorial authorities and/or Local Government Commission and maintained by Stats NZ (the custodian), This version contains 1 Māori ward. excluding area outside Māori ward.
Credit
Stats NZ
Point Of Contact
Responsible Party
Individual Name
Geospatial Team
Organisation Name
Stats NZ
Contact Info
Contact
Address
Address
Electronic Mail Address
geography@stats.govt.nz
Online Resource
Online Resource
Linkage
URL
https://datafinder.stats.govt.nz/
Role
Role Code
custodian
Descriptive Keywords
Keywords
Keyword
Downloadable Data
Descriptive Keywords
Keywords
Keyword
Maori ward
Keyword
2020
Keyword
MWARD
Resource Constraints
Constraints
Use Limitation
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Spatial Representation Type Code
vector
Language
Language Code
eng
Character Set
Character Set Code
utf8
Topic Category Code
boundaries
Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.3.1.4959
Māori wards are based on the meshblock pattern. Non-alignment of meshblock and cadastral boundaries are one of a number of reasons for meshblock boundary adjustments. Other reasons include requests from local authorities, Local Government Commission, Electoral Representation Commission and to make census enumeration processes easier. From the meshblock pattern, higher geographies, including the 2020 Māori ward pattern, were dissolved using the dissolve tool in the Arc GIS suite.
