Locating unmatched parcels
This section describes finding title for parcels missing from the map.
If you know the owner’s name, you should start with a wild card search on their name.
The following example assumes you do not know who owns the property, and the map appears as follows;
Click the find button, and then click the Appellation tab within the find form. Tick the Use Secondary Index to Display Ungeocoded Records check box. This tells QuickMap to search title legal descriptions. The title legal description will be different to the Survey System’s legal description shown on the map.
Click the Wild Card Search button to bring up the Wild Card Search box. Untick the Search Geocoded check box to speed up the search. Make sure the Search Records not Geocoded by LINZ check box is ticked. What to search is best described by some worked examples.
Type *Mangatoro* into the search field, and click the Search button. Highlight the nearest match to the legal description shown on the map, then click the Find button.
This will display the following report
Look at the title HBM3/840 to confirm if this is the correct parcel. The legal description shown on the map is a part section, which means Section 4 has been split into 2 or more parts. Look at the title to determine if this is the correct part. If not, search again using the plan reference.
This will locate parcels that have been entered into the title system using the simplified legal description format. Simplified Legal Descriptions were introduced in 1992, and take one of these formats;
1) Lot <number> DP <number>
2) Section <number> SO <number>
3) Section <number> Block <number> <Survey District> Survey District.
Plan numbers are in the Survey Plan (Nth) Layer. Make this layer visible using the layer control tool. If the survey plans are too small to read, increase the font size by following the instruction at http://www.quickmap.co.nz/symbology.htm
The plan reference search returns SECT 4 SO 1882 in this example, which may also be the correct record.