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Service Description: ‘Black Maps’ is a short-hand term for some of the earliest survey plans of the Canterbury Land District. They were created in the period 1848 - c.1870, although some continued to be annotated well into the twentieth century. The surveys were carried out for the legal purchase and sale of land parcels, initially under the administration of the Canterbury Association, which was founded in London 27 March 1848 in order to establish a Church of England settlement in New Zealand. A survey party led by Captain Joseph Thomas was sent to prepare for the arrival of settlers and large tracts of land were explored and mapped by the staff of the Association’s survey office. In 1853 the Canterbury Association was wound up and the new Canterbury Provincial Government took over administration of the survey office until 1876, when the office reported to the Survey Department based in Wellington. ‘Trig points’ (trigonometrical survey points or beacons), compasses and a theodolite were the surveyors’ tools, and the service of Māori guides and negotiators for supplies was invaluable to the early survey parties. The maps were drawn from the data and notes written by the surveyors in their field books. The maps vary in the degree of detail given but they show topographical features such as rivers, mountains and vegetation, cadastral information (the legal description, boundaries and area of land parcels), district and Provincial boundaries, and tracks and roads.

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Service Description: ‘Black Maps’ is a short-hand term for some of the earliest survey plans of the Canterbury Land District. They were created in the period 1848 - c.1870, although some continued to be annotated well into the twentieth century. The surveys were carried out for the legal purchase and sale of land parcels, initially under the administration of the Canterbury Association, which was founded in London 27 March 1848 in order to establish a Church of England settlement in New Zealand. A survey party led by Captain Joseph Thomas was sent to prepare for the arrival of settlers and large tracts of land were explored and mapped by the staff of the Association’s survey office. In 1853 the Canterbury Association was wound up and the new Canterbury Provincial Government took over administration of the survey office until 1876, when the office reported to the Survey Department based in Wellington. ‘Trig points’ (trigonometrical survey points or beacons), compasses and a theodolite were the surveyors’ tools, and the service of Māori guides and negotiators for supplies was invaluable to the early survey parties. The maps were drawn from the data and notes written by the surveyors in their field books. The maps vary in the degree of detail given but they show topographical features such as rivers, mountains and vegetation, cadastral information (the legal description, boundaries and area of land parcels), district and Provincial boundaries, and tracks and roads.



Copyright Text: Environment Canterbury, Ngai Tahu, LINZ, Archives NZ

Spatial Reference: 2193  (2193)


Single Fused Map Cache: true

Tile Info: Storage Info: Initial Extent: Full Extent: Units: esriMeters

Supported Image Format Types: PNG32,PNG24,PNG,JPG,DIB,TIFF,EMF,PS,PDF,GIF,SVG,SVGZ,BMP

Document Info: Supports Dynamic Layers: false

Resampling: false

MaxRecordCount: 1000

MaxImageHeight: 4096

MaxImageWidth: 4096

Supported Query Formats: JSON, geoJSON, PBF

Supports Query Data Elements: true

Min Scale: 5.91657527591555E8

Max Scale: 70.5310735

Supports Datum Transformation: true



Child Resources:   Info

Supported Operations:   Export Map   Identify   QueryLegends   QueryDomains   Find   Return Updates