There is planned maintenance for Canterbury Maps website pages/datasets and apps 10:30am to 6:00pm Wednesday 11 November 2026. We appreciate your understanding and patience during this time
Canterbury’s yellow, orange and red tsunami evacuation zones have changed to one blue tsunami evacuation zone. This is a part of a national move to one tsunami evacuation zone to make it easier for people to know what to do.
Since 2020, Canterbury Maps has been used by hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders to access, download, and use a wide range of geospatial data from across the region. Help us inform the development of an exciting new version.
Waitaha/Canterbury can now be viewed in 3D thanks to new data from a ground-breaking aerial laser survey of the region.
View Christchurch City in 3D with the newly captured elevation (LiDAR) dataset!
Discover what Canterbury looked like in the 1800s with the latest Black Maps update!
Three Waters and District Planning Zones datasets have been updated! Discover what’s included in this update.
New rural imagery in Mackenzie and Waitaki. Discover what new imagery is being captured this summer.
The pekapeka long-tailed bat wins bird of the year! Discover where the Pekapeka long-tail bat roost in Canterbury so we can protect them.
New urban aerial imagery in Christchurch, Banks Peninsula, Selwyn and Waitaki have been added to the latest imagery basemap.
As part of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, the Canterbury Maps have released with permission from Ngāi Tahu and the Kā Huru Manu mapping project to bring Ngā Ingoa & Ngā Ingoa (awa) - Ngāi Tahu Placenames of Canterbury to the Canterbury Maps platf…