How I can find a list of NZ town with their regions?

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Hibino

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#225421 17-Nov-2017 20:20

I googled a lot but just can't find a list of NZ towns with their region together.

I can use the full town list from Wikipedia(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_New_Zealand) and I know there are 16 regions in NZ but is there anyway I can categories these towns into their belonging regions? Thank you.

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#1903470 17-Nov-2017 21:25

Maybe it would be something nz post will have?

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#1903472 17-Nov-2017 21:32

Might be able to get details with https://data.linz.govt.nz/

alasta

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#1903607 18-Nov-2017 10:48

Do you have Apple Maps? It shows regional boundaries as a broken red line.

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#1903610 18-Nov-2017 10:55

Google Maps also shows boundaries, but I can't guarantee that they're correct (I see that the Bay of Plenty is now correct, about ten years after reporting it as wrong).

Hibino

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#1903785 18-Nov-2017 17:48

davidcole: Maybe it would be something nz post will have?

I know NZPost and CourierPost has a address database that contains almost every street address+suburb+town+postcode+gps location in NZ but I don't see it come with region info. Maybe they have one internally.

nas:

Might be able to get details with https://data.linz.govt.nz/

Emm... spend sometime but just can't figure out what this thing do... :(

alasta:

Do you have Apple Maps? It shows regional boundaries as a broken red line.

Behodar:

Google Maps also shows boundaries, but I can't guarantee that they're correct (I see that the Bay of Plenty is now correct, about ten years after reporting it as wrong).

Yes maps has regional boundaries but it will take a lot of time to matching those towns into region manually through a map :(

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#1903794 18-Nov-2017 18:58

What are you trying to achieve here, and what sort of towns are you thinking of (some examples).

This is probably the easiest/closest option

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_authorities_of_New_Zealand

It seems odd, but there isn't really a definitive list of place names. The Fire Service has a database on 'localities' which covers this, but they regard it as their intellectual property so you need to sign a 6-page agreement to gain access. And you can't reproduce the data in it. Because they think that you could confuse people about where they live and delay an emergency response. Don't get me started...

This source from LINZ is probably second-best as far as comprehensive options go

https://www.linz.govt.nz/regulatory/place-names/find-place-name/new-zealand-gazetteer-place-names (see the CSV download option)

Hibino

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#1904153 19-Nov-2017 17:46

nickb800:

What are you trying to achieve here, and what sort of towns are you thinking of (some examples).

This is probably the easiest/closest option

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_authorities_of_New_Zealand

It seems odd, but there isn't really a definitive list of place names. The Fire Service has a database on 'localities' which covers this, but they regard it as their intellectual property so you need to sign a 6-page agreement to gain access. And you can't reproduce the data in it. Because they think that you could confuse people about where they live and delay an emergency response. Don't get me started...

This source from LINZ is probably second-best as far as comprehensive options go

https://www.linz.govt.nz/regulatory/place-names/find-place-name/new-zealand-gazetteer-place-names (see the CSV download option)

Thank you, I'll take a look at the links above.

I am building a interface to let some of my users to choose every town in NZ and group them into different groups(and the choices has no pattern so it is pretty much random, all follow how the user think about the town). And I guess it will be much easier for them to decide if I group the towns into their region so they have a better idea where the town is. Otherwise seeing hundreds of town names in a big list and most of them I haven't even heard of will be a really hard work.

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Aredwood

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#1904270 20-Nov-2017 00:30

https://www.nzpost.co.nz/personal/sending-within-nz/how-to-address-mail/postcodes/postcode-directory

That page has links to separate directories by region. You would just need to scrape the town names out of each regional directory to get the lists of town names by region.

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#1904276 20-Nov-2017 06:13

Seriously, the work has been done, you just need to pull it out from here.... (just spend a few moments to learn how to use their database and you have got the info you need).

https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/3353

Hibino

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#1905371 21-Nov-2017 17:29

Aredwood: https://www.nzpost.co.nz/personal/sending-within-nz/how-to-address-mail/postcodes/postcode-directory

That page has links to separate directories by region. You would just need to scrape the town names out of each regional directory to get the lists of town names by region.

Thank you. This one is easy enough except they grouped few regions together into 1 pdf and in the pdf there is no region column to separate them. But still useable.

Ahhhhh, their PDF does not allow copy/paste I guess if I can't find any other solution I'll have to build an excel file manually...

Goosey:

Seriously, the work has been done, you just need to pull it out from here.... (just spend a few moments to learn how to use their database and you have got the info you need).

https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/3353

From your link I can get the data like NZPost/CourierPost address API that contains the street/city etc, and then I tried a few other layers/data sets but just can't find one that links the town/city to its region :-( Can you please point out which layer/data set I can use to match the town to its region? Thank you