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CRT 0488 NM3 User Guide RELEASE NOTES OVERVIEW October 2017 1 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 4 WHAT’S NEW IN OCTOBER 2017 RELEASE 6 FEATURES AND CHANGES IN OCTOBER 2017 6 WHAT WAS NEW IN APRIL 2017 RELEASE 8 WHAT WAS NEW IN OCTOBER 2016 RELEASE 10 WHAT WAS NEW IN APRIL 2016 RELEASE 13 WHAT WAS NEW IN OCTOBER 2015 RELEASE 16 WHAT WAS NEW IN APRIL 2015 RELEASE 19 APPENDIX 1 – LANDMARK AND POI CATEGORIES 22 APPENDIX 2 - NATIONALMAP MODULES AND OTHER DATA 25 COMMERCIAL POINTS OF INTEREST 25 ROUTING MODULE 25 CADASTRE MODULES 26 MORTGAGES MODULE 26 VISUALCENSUS13 27 PROPOSED ROADS 28 2 Over 80% of business data has a strong location element. This location content can unleash a great deal more potential than examining the data on its own. NationalMap Release Notes Overview – October 2017 3 INTRODUCTION Thank you for purchasing NationalMap, the most detailed, accurate and complete mapping solution for New Zealand organisations. NationalMap is engineered with context, analysis and business integration in mind, making it the essential solution for all of your mapping and location-based applications. The NationalMap dataset allows your data to be displayed and analysed in context with the surrounding geography. NationalMap provides street-level mapping with unparalleled display quality and data accuracy. It is widely recognised as the most comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date New Zealand map data and is trusted by many global and local companies where accuracy, especially for road information, is critical to their business. Including our up-to-date proprietary road network and a gazetteer of place names and landmarks, NationalMap is a comprehensive digital map solution. Also included is a useful range of boundaries for local and regional government administration, such as communities of interest, postcode boundaries and statistical areas, and many other topographic data layers. Specialist add-on modules are also available including: • Cadastral land parcel information provisioned through the LINZ Data Service (LDS) • Routing application to enable journey planning and route analysis to assist in fleet management among other applications • Elevation information including contour data and digital elevation models. NationalMap is completely scalable in its deployment, allowing the purchasing of whole, contiguous, or discrete areas ranging from the whole country, to North and South Islands; regional councils, to territorial authorities. NationalMap is also directly compatible with a number of other data products. This eliminates the need for user integration and configuration, providing seamless overlays and ease of use through common datasets. NationalMap Release Notes Overview – October 2017 4 NationalMap is continuously reviewed and improved by our dedicated team of data analysts. They use various sources to improve and validate the data that is supplied to you. The following section describes the changes and improvements we have made to NationalMap since the previous release. NationalMap Release Notes Overview – October 2017 5 WHAT’S NEW in October 2017 release Features and Changes in October 2017 Ongoing maintenance has seen a number of revisions to the data which goes into NationalMap. These include the addition of newly opened roads, ongoing positional accuracy improvements, and a review of contextual and POI (points of interest) data. Roads As part of our ongoing maintenance, we are continuously reviewing our road network in conjunction with district and city councils, the NZTA, RAMM1 Software Ltd, and LINZ. This has resulted in considerable improvements in both road alignment and attribution. The following table provides a high-level overview of changes made in the last six months: Change or From Apr 17 From Oct 16 From Apr 16 alteration to Oct 17 to Apr 17 to Oct 16 Number of new roads 808 705 1312 Number of roads with 209 166 110 road name alterations Number of roads with 563 506 800 speed limit alterations Number of roads with positional accuracy 13495 23371 37950 improvements From the previous NationalMap supply, we have carried out a number of reviews, most notably: Review of Variable Speed Limits Significant roads made live in this release include: • Haywards Interchange The completion of our positional accuracy improvement review project. All roads in New Zealand are now aligned to within 2 metres of real world position: • Improved Junction geometry • Improved Real world alignment • Improved Network Connectivity • Improved Network routing attribution (one way roads and turn restrictions) 1 Road Assessment and Maintenance Management NationalMap Release Notes Overview – October 2017 6 Points of Interest A review of the following landmark categories has been conducted: • Retail Areas – along with the retail area and shopping centre polygons • Education Service Stations are no longer being supplied with NationalMap base as these have been moved to the new Commercial POIs dataset see APPENDIX 2 - NATIONALMAP MODULES AND OTHER DATA for more details. If you are interested in obtaining the Commercial POI data, or finding more about them, please contact the NationalMap sales team on [email protected] Built up areas and coastline A review of built up areas was conducted, with particular attention on their alignment with the coastline. This has resulted in minor changes to the Sea Outline and Sea Detail layers. Traffic Lights A review of the Traffic lights RouteFinder layer was conducted for Auckland Hospitals A review of the Hospitals layer was conducted to ensure that every entry in the Hospital Sites layer has a main entrance and, where appropriate, an Accident and Emergency entrance. NationalMap Release Notes Overview – October 2017 7 WHAT was new in April 2017 release Roads The following table provides a high-level overview of changes made in the last six months: Change or From Oct 16 From Apr 16 From Oct 15 alteration to Apr 17 to Oct 16 to Apr 16 Number of new roads 705 1312 1532 Number of roads with 166 110 240 road name alterations Number of roads with 506 800 450 speed limit alterations Number of roads with positional accuracy 23371 37950 22523 improvements From the previous NationalMap supply, we have carried out a number of reviews, most notably: Significant roads made live in this release include: • Kapiti Expressway north of Wellington • Waterview Connection in Auckland A continuation of our positional accuracy improvement review project. To now cover arterial roads for the entire country and all roads for the 53 following local authority areas: Auckland, Thames- Coromandel, Hauraki, Waikato, Matamata-Piako, Hamilton, Waipa, Otorohanga, South Waikato, Taupo, Western Bay of Plenty, Tauranga, Rotorua, Whakatane, Kawerau, Opotiki, Napier, New Plymouth, Stratford, South Taranaki, Wanganui, Rangitikei, Manawatu, Palmerston North, Horowhenua, Kapiti Coast, Porirua, Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt, Wellington, Masterton, Carterton, South Wairarapa, Nelson, Marlborough, Kaikoura, Buller, Grey, Westland, Hurunui, Waimakariri, Christchurch, Selwyn, Ashburton, Timaru, Mackenzie, Waimate, Waitaki, Central Otago, Dunedin, Clutha, Gore, and Invercargill. This review includes: • Improved Junction geometry • Improved Real world alignment (aligned to within 2 metres of real world position) • Improved Network Connectivity • Improved Network routing attribution (one way roads and turn restrictions) This review is due for completion of the whole country by July . In the light of the Kaikoura Earthquakes in November 2016, an 11km section of State Highway One north of Kaikoura Township is closed for repairs, and is expected to re-open on 14th November 2017. In NationalMap Release Notes Overview – October 2017 8 NationalMap this section of highway has been disconnected from the rest of the network so that in routing applications it will be ignored. Motorway Junctions A review of motorway junctions has seen an additional 26 junctions added. Christchurch A review of roads & walkways in the Christchurch CBD area in line with advice from the Christchurch City Rebuild. The Earthquake “Red zoned” areas are now included in the Parks’ table A review of the parks and reserves around the Christchurch Port Hills area, due to the recent fire events there. Retail Areas and Shopping Areas A review of the Retail Areas was completed to check the validity of existing areas and add new areas that met the requirements. A complete review of the Shopping Centres was completed. This refined the requirements for capturing shopping centres and also updated the data with the latest shopping centres at the time. NationalMap Release Notes Overview – October 2017 9 WHAT was new in October 2016 release Roads From the previous NationalMap supply, we have carried out a number of reviews, most notably: • A continuation of our positional accuracy improvement review project*. To now cover arterial roads for the entire country and all roads for the following local authority areas: Auckland, Tauranga, Western Bay of Plenty, Hamilton, Napier, New Plymouth, Whanganui, Palmerston North, Kapiti, Porirua, Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Waitaki, and Dunedin. This review includes: • Improved Junction geometry • Improved Real world alignment • Improved Network Connectivity • Improved Network routing attribution (one way roads and turn restrictions) *It is planned to continue this review to the entire country over the next year targeting high density population areas and tourist areas first. Change or From Apr 16 From Oct 15 From Apr 15 alteration to Oct 16 to Apr 16 to Oct 15 Number of
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