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Layer: PlaceName (ID: 22)

Name: PlaceName

Display Field: name

Type: Feature Layer

Geometry Type: esriGeometryPoint

Description: [The Place NamesGazetteer](http://www.linz.govt.nz/placenames/find-names/nz-gazetteer-official-names/nzgb-gazetteer)contains **official** and **unofficial** place names under the jurisdiction ofthe New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB). Officialplace names are those that have been assigned, altered, adopted, approved, andvalidated under the NZGB Act 2008 or through other statutes that assign officialnames, for example, Treaty settlement legislation. Unofficial place names arethose that have not been processed under the NZGB Act 2008 or through otherrelevant statutes.Data is extracted from Land Information New Zealand’s (LINZ) ‘New ZealandGazetteer of Official Geographic Names’, which is maintained by the NZGBSecretariat.Geographical coverage encompasses New Zealand, the Ross Dependency ofAntarctica, and the Continental Shelf of New Zealand.The NZGB has naming jurisdiction over:- natural features such as mountains, peaks, valleys, glens, forests, lagoons,swamps, creeks, streams, rivers, fords, lakes, glaciers or ice features, bays,islands or harbours (including man-made features of the same type)- railways or railway stations, but not railway features such as marshallingyards, transfer sites, or track point locations- places, i.e. cities, towns, villages, sites, areas, or similar places,including suburbs and localities- undersea features- Crown protected areas- Districts and regions (altering only if requested by the local authority)Each name is provided with a location represented by a point. More complexgeometry (e.g lines for rivers or areas for suburbs) is not currentlyavailable.Each geographic feature has one or more place names associated with it. Placenames usually comprise two components – ‘specific’, being for the proper noun,and ‘generic’, being a description of the geographic feature type.Information provided for each place name may include: name; name status (whetherofficial or unofficial); geographic feature type; authority by which an officialname became official; district within which the name is located; geographiclocation; reference information; history/origin/meaning; and additional notes. Not all information is available for all names.Positional accuracy is generally the same as 1:50K mapping. Informationaccuracy reflects information at the time of original capture.Region: New ZealandCategory: GazetteerProjection: NZGD2000 / New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000This layer contains duplicate records for Marlborough place names with marcrons. The records containing macrons have been copied and the macron letters replaced with regular ones.The duplicates have a status of "MDC Duplicate".Data acquired May 2016.

Service Item Id: 5c33387d96ee49e6899d52ec4f87fee2

Copyright Text: LINZ

Default Visibility: false

MaxRecordCount: 1000

Supported Query Formats: JSON, geoJSON, PBF

Min Scale: 0

Max Scale: 0

Supports Advanced Queries: true

Supports Statistics: true

Has Labels: false

Can Modify Layer: true

Can Scale Symbols: false

Use Standardized Queries: true

Supports Datum Transformation: true

Extent:
Drawing Info: Advanced Query Capabilities:
HasZ: false

HasM: false

Has Attachments: false

HTML Popup Type: esriServerHTMLPopupTypeAsHTMLText

Type ID Field: null

Fields:
Supported Operations:   Query   Query Attachments   Query Analytic   Generate Renderer   Return Updates

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