New Zealand Land Cover (LCDB)

Projection: New Zealand Transverse Mercator (NZTM) This layer contains Land Cover classifications for Aotearoa/New Zealand sourced from Manaaki Whenua. This layer shows generalised locations of land cover and provides information on the type of land cover between 1996 and 2023. This layer was created using the most recent version of the Land Cover Database (LCDB v6.0). The data in this layer has been diced to have a maximum of 50000 vertices while maintaining the original shape and then simplified using the Retain Critical Points method with a simplification tolerance of 15 metres. The source data and metadata about the attributes can be found here and here. This layer is offered by Eagle Technology (Official Esri Distributor). Eagle Technology offers services that can be used in the ArcGIS platform. The Content team at Eagle Technology regularly adds new content to the Living Atlas. By using this content and combining it with other data you can create new information products quickly and easily. If you have any questions or comments about the content, please let us now at [e-mail].