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This dataset was last updated on Stats NZ Geographic Data Service on 14 Jan 2021.
This dataset contains the annually released ward boundaries for 2021 as defined by the territorial authorities and/or Local Government Commission, and maintained by Stats NZ (the custodian), clipped to the coastline. This clipped version has been created for map creation/cartographic purposes and so does not fully represent the official full extent boundaries. This version contains 239 categories.
Wards were originally set up within any territorial authority with a population of at least 20,000. Wards are defined under the Local Electoral Act 2001 and result from dividing a territorial authority for electoral purposes. The ward system was designed to allow for the recognition of communities within a territorial authority and to increase community involvement in the local government system.Territorial authorities can now choose whether they would like to maintain electoral wards. As a result, the number of wards has steadily decreased since they were first created in 1989. Ward boundaries are reviewed in the year before the three-yearly local government elections.
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.
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Category | Annual Boundaries > 2021 |
Tags | boundaries |
Regions | New Zealand |
Metadata | ISO 19115/19139, Dublin Core |
Technical Details | |
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Layer ID | 105146 |
Data type | Vector multipolygon | Feature count | 239 |
Attributes | WARD2021_V1_00, WARD2021_V1_00_NAME, WARD2021_V1_00_NAME_ASCII, LAND_AREA_SQ_KM, AREA_SQ_KM, Shape_Length |
Services | Vector Query API, Web Feature Service (WFS), Catalog Service (CS-W), data.govt.nz Atom Feed |
History | |
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Added | 3 Dec 2020 |
Last updated | 14 Jan 2021 |
Revisions | 4 - Browse all revisions |
Current revision | Imported on Jan. 14, 2021 from Geodatabase in NZGD2000 / New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000. 1 geometry modified to be OGC compliant. Changelog. |
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