i GDInfo Sheet GeoDataHub GEOSPATIAL DATA REPOSITORY — geodatahub.library.auckland.ac.nzhttps://gdh.auckland.ac.nz — New Zealand Mapping Service Series The New Zealand Mapping Service (NZMS), introduced in 1948, adopted a unique numbering system based on the indexing method used by the British Geographical Section of the General Staff, War Office. Maps and charts subsequently published by the Department were allocated an NZMS series number. The NZMS series included all published government maps produced by the Department for public consumption, classified maps produced for the Ministry of Defence and a small number of other products, such as Department’s in- ternal forms and instructions. The NZMS series numbers range from NZMS 1 to NZMS 347; some include subseries identified by a letter (e.g. NZMS 2A). Not all numbers, 1 to 347, were allocated and some series, despite being allocated a number, were never published. From 1987 to 1996 the NZMS series were issued under a brand name Infomap (e.g. Infomap 344). Individual NZMS series range in size from a single map to over a thousand sheets. Some maps and map series published prior to the introduction of NZMS series numbering system were allocated a series number retrospectively (e.g. NZMS 13 – published from 1876 until 1961, or NZMS 20 – a single map from 1929). The NZMS series numbering system was discontinued from June 1996, coinciding with a restructure of the Depart- ment of Survey and Land Information into Land Information New Zealand, although some maps and charts were still issued under the Series number (e.g. Series 260). All NZMS series maps were classified into seven Catalogue Classes: General, Cadastral, Topographic, Mosa- ic, Aeronautical, Pacific and Miscellaneous. This classification, established in 1948, has been modified here to better reflect the diversity of map applications and coverage by separating Street, Antarctic and Defence classes from the original classification. The table overleaf lists all NZMS series currently held in this repository, providing their classification, generic title, scale and indicative publication dates or date ranges. The files are provided in JPG and TIF formats, with a selection of NZMS series also available in a georeferenced GeoTIF format. About Cartographic and Geospatial Resources Repository This developing repository of map images initially focuses on maps and charts published by the New Zealand Lands and Survey Department (later called Department of Survey and Land Information, and now Land Infor- mation New Zealand) since the 1850s. They are classified into three distinct groups: New Zealand Mapping Service (NZMS) series maps and charts Land and Survey (L&S) series maps and charts Topographic (Topo) series maps In addition, the repository contains digital topographic databases for New Zealand and its offshore islands, Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau and Ross Dependency in Antarctica produced by Land Information New Zealand since 2011 onwards: digital Topographic (Topo) data NZMS Class Title Scale Dates* Notes 1 Topographic N.Z. Topographical Map series 1:63,360 1939-1989 2 Topographic N.Z. Topographical Map series 1:25,000 1942-1972 2A Topographic New Zealand Topographical Map series (Auckland area) 1:25,000 1940-1951 2B Topographic N.Z. Topographical Map series (Waiouru area) 1:25,000 1940-1966 3 Mosaic N.Z. Mosaic Map Series 1:15,840 1948-1976 3A Mosaic Fotomap series 1:15,840 1941-1946 3B Mosaic [Aerial Photography Enlargement series] 1:15,840 - Sample image and documentation 4 Mosaic N.Z. Mosaic Map Series 1:25,000 1948-1955 6 Aeronautical Approach and Landing Charts – ICAO various 1949-1972 Multiple sub-series 7 Aeronautical Aeronautical Plottng Chart – ICAO 1:3,000,000 1948-1974 7A Aeronautical Aeronautical Plotting Chart – ICAO 1:3,000,000 1958 8 Miscellaneous Map Index series various 1948-1985 8A Miscellaneous Map Index series various 1962-1975 9 Aeronautical Aeronautical Chart ICAO (topographic base) 1:500,000 1949-1965 9A Aeronautical Aeronautical Chart ICAO 1:500,000 1951-1955 9C Aeronautical Aeronautical Chart ICAO 1:500,000 1956-1968 10 General N.Z. Territorial Series 1:253,440 1924-1970 10A General N.Z. Territorial Series (county boundaries) 1:253,440 1924-1971 10B General N.Z. Four-mile territorial series (roads and bridges classification) 1:253,440 1942 11 Aeronautical Radio Facility nad Services Chart (NZAIP Planning Manual) various 1949-1973 12 Topographic Strip Map series 1:506,880 1937-1950 12A Aeronautical Strip Map series (aeronautical) 1:506,880 1936-1949 12B Miscellaneous State and Main Highways 1:506,880 1944-1950 13 Cadastral N.Z. Cadastral Map – Survey District Series 1:63,360 1867-1961 14 Cadastral N.Z. Cadastral Map – Survey District Series 1:31,680 1936-1959 15 Cadastral N.Z. Cadastral Map – County Series 1:63,360 1915-1961 15A Cadastral N.Z. Cadastral Map – County Series (Hutt) 1:63,360 1963 16 Cadastral N.Z. Cadastral Map – Town Series various 1861-1975 17 Street New Zealand Street Map series various 1950-1979 18 Topographic N.Z. Topographical Map series 1:250,000 1958-1982 19 Topographic N.Z. Topographical Map series 1:500,000 1949-1973 19A Miscellaneous State and Main Highways 1:500,000 1953-1959 19B Miscellaneous Hydrologic Map 1:500,000 1959 19C Miscellaneous National and Provincial State Highways 1:500,000 1960 19D Aeronautical Aeronautical Chart (RNZAF) 1:500,000 1968-1975 19E Aeronautical Aeronautical Chart 1:500,000 1969-1974 19F Aeronautical Aeronautical Chart including RNZAF Low Level Routes (Jet) 1:500,000 1975 20 General Dominion of New Zealand with its Dependencies (and Western 1:20,400,000 1929 Samoa) 21 General New Zealand (showing steamer routes) 1:3,168,000 1945-1950 22 General New Zealand (two sheets) 1:2,027,520 1948 23 General New Zealand 1:1,584,000 1943 23A General Topographical Map of New Zealand 1:1,584,000 1943 24 General Dominion of New Zealand with Mountain Features in Pictorial 1:1,584,000 1906-1921 Relief 25 General New Zealand (two sheets) 1:1,013,760 1937-1948 25A General New Zealand (county, boroughs and town districts boundaries) 1:1,013,760 1932-1948 25B General New Zealand (provincial district boundaries) 1:1,013,760 1929 North Island only 26 General New Zealand (two sheets) 1:1,000,000 1920-1932 26A General New Zealand (provincial district boundaries) 1:1,000,000 1920 South Island only 27 General International Map of the World (New Zealand) 1:1,000,000 1931-1936 28 General New Zealand (four sheets) 1:633,600 1945-1949 28A General New Zealand (county, boroughs and town districts boundaries) 1:633,600 1929-1930 29 Topographic Auckland and Wellington 1:125,000 1916-1920 NZMS Class Title Scale Dates* Notes 30 Topographic Featherston 1:125,000 1928 31 Topographic Invercargill 1:125,000 1922 32 Topographic Staff College Manoeuvre Sheet (Manawatu area) 1:63,360 1941 33 Topographic Part of Waikato District 1:63,360 1924 34 Topographic Trentham Camp Manoeuvre Area 1:63,360 1915 35 Topographic Featherston Camp Manoeuvre Area 1:63,360 1916 36 Topographic Dunedin and Vicinity 1:31,680 1922 37 Topographic Springfield Manoeuvre Map 1:31,680 1926 38 Topographic Sutton Manœuvre Map 1:31,680 1914 39 Topographic Wellington District 1:31,680 1913-1924 40 Topographic Waipukurau 1:25,000 1933 41 Topographic Waikouaiti and Outram 1:25,000 1935 42 Topographic Waikato Camp and Gordonton 1:25,000 1937 43 Topographic [New Plymouth area] 1:25,000 1930-1932 44 Topographic Trentham Manœuvre Area 1:20,000 1929 45 Topographic Burnham Manœuvre Area 1:15,840 1920 46 Topographic Wakapuaka Survey District, Nelson (part Blocks 5 and 9) 1:15,840 1931 47 Miscellaneous Great Circle Distances and Azimuths from Wellington 1:90,000,000 1945-1984 48 Miscellaneous New Zealand Principal Waterfalls for Electric Power and Catch- 1:1,013,760 1904 ment Areas of Principal Rivers 49 Miscellaneous North, Central and South Otago 1:506,880 1928 50 Miscellaneous Thermal Regions of New Zealand 1:380,160 1930-1985 51 Miscellaneous Regional Data Series 1:253,440 1947-1962 52 Miscellaneous Scenic Reserves, Westland 1:190,080 1930 53 Miscellaneous Taupo Fisheries 1:158,400 1929 54 Miscellaneous Tongariro National Park 1:126,720 1917-1927 55 Miscellaneous Mount Hector Track and Girdlestone’s Track (Tararua Ranges) 1:126,720 1924 56 Miscellaneous Alpine Regions in Vicinity of Mount Cook 1:95,040 1934 57 Miscellaneous Tararua Mountain System 1:100,000 1936-1972 58 Miscellaneous Arthur’s Pass National Park 1:63,360 1931 61 Miscellaneous Port Hills – Akaroa Summit Road 1:63,360 1919 62 Miscellaneous Metropolitan Data Series 1:63,360 1943-1950 63 Miscellaneous Mt Egmont (Taranaki) 1:15,840 1916 64 Miscellaneous New Zealand Alpine Regions undetermined 1929 65 Pacific Cook Islands and Niue 1:4,371,840 1925 66 Pacific Rarotonga, Cook Islands 1:15,840 1915 67 Pacific Kermadec Islands 1:633,600 1898 68 Pacific Niue or Savage Island 1:62,500 1916 69 Pacific Norfolk Island 1:11,880 1942 70 Pacific Apia, Western Samoa 1:2,000 1924 71 Pacific Savaii and Upolu (Western Samoa) 1:100,000 1921-1922 74 Miscellaneous Ruahine Mountain System 1:100,000 1951-1965 75 Miscellaneous Weather Chart (Met Form 704) [Pacific area] 1:10,000,000 1950-1953 76 Miscellaneous The World’s Tourist Routes to New Zealand 1:300,000,000 1972 78 Mosaic N.Z. Mosaic Map Series – Aerodromes 1:15,840 1950-1966 80 Topographic N. Z. Topographical Map – Layered Series 1:63,360 1950 82 Miscellaneous Meteorological Chart (Met Form 707) [New Zealand area] 1:5,000,000 1950 83 General New Zealand (two sheets) 1:1,000,000 1953-1968 83A Miscellaneous West Coast Power Potential 1:1,000,000 1960 South Island only 83B Aeronautical N.A.C.