Access Report: , Prepared for Land Information New Zealand; Department of Conservation; Ministry of Economic Development, August 2009, 136 pages.

This report was commissioned by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), the New Zealand Department of Conservation, and the Ministry of Economic Development New Zealand in April 2009. The report was prepared by a team of consultants led by ACIL Tasman Pty Ltd and including consultants from Sinclair, Knight and Merz (SKM) in Wellington and Ecological Associates in Auckland.

The report:

• describes how spatial information is used across sectors of New Zealand’s economy
• describes and quantifies the value of spatial information in the economy
• estimates the gains available from removing barriers to spatial information making a greater contribution to productivity
• describes and estimates the value of greater use of spatial information to innovation and product markets.

It provides robust economic analysis that quantifies the contribution spatial information makes to the New Zealand economy, as well as opportunities for this contribution to grow. The report concludes that use and re-use of spatial information is estimated to have added $1.2 billion in productivity related benefits to the New Zealand economy in 2008.

Contents

Executive Summary

1. Modern Spatial information in the NZ Economy

1.1 Background to the Report

1.2 What is spatial information and why is it valuable

1.3 Spatial information and the economy

2. Sector-by-sector analysis

2.1 Government services

2.2 Private services

2.3 Manufacturing

2.4 Inferences for economic modelling

3. Barriers and Opportunities

3.1 Nature of the Barriers

3.2 Spatial Data without barriers: efficient and effective SDI

3.3 Government role in making an efficient and effective SDI

3.4 The ‘cost’ of barriers and the gain from removing them

3.5 Future directions for the sector

4. Macroeconomic modelling

4.1 Database management

4.2 Tasman Global modelling

A Economic modelling

B References