Title and Owner details in QuickMap are sourced from Land Information New Zealand (LINZ). As at May 09, LINZ have matched around 78% of titles to a Survey Parcel, which means only 78% of title/owner can be referenced on a map. Custom Software has increased the match to around 98%, and this match is possibly the best in the country, so if it is missing in QuickMap, it is probably also missing in other systems.  

To make things slightly more difficult, some Maori Land and Crown Land parcels do not have a title.  Maori Land is land that used to be administered by the Maori Land Court, and is not included in the LINZ Title System. As at Jan 09, most, if not all of this land has been moved into the title system. However it is possible there may be a few parcels missing, especially if you are using a QuickMap version prior to January 09.

QuickMap still allows you to report on the missing titles and owners, despite the fact they cannot be drawn on the map. If you do not know the title or owner, and it is not displayed on the map, you can use QuickMap’s wild card search facility on the legal description, owner or title to track it down. The Survey Plan expansion pack also provides help in locating missing titles. 

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 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 here

The plan reference search returns SECT 4 SO 1882 in this example, which may also be the correct record.

Flat Plans and Area Units

Some Flat Plans and Area Units do not appear on the Map. Even where they are shown on the map, the boundary of the actual area unit or flat is not shown. 

For example, if you search on title NA132D/952, QuickMap will display the report