Taranaki Regional Xplorer

Taranaki Regional Xplorer is designed to provide public access (especially for ratepayers) to district and regional council information.

Urban aerial photography is available for Stratford, Hawera and Normanby and can be viewed to a minimum scale of 1:1 and a maximum scale of 1:4800. Aerial photography for the remainder of the region can be viewed to a minimum scale of 1:1000 and a maximum scale of 1:47,500.

We've launched a new version of the Regional Xplorer, to get started, click the button below to ensure you're running the latest version of Microsoft Silverlight.  Due to the requirements of this new application, Xplorer only available for use on Windows and Apple computers.

Then, click the logo below to launch Xplorer:

Problems?

11 Oct 2011: EGL (the company that hosts Xplorer for us) have identified a problem that was potentially preventing a number of users from accessing the new Xplorer website.  During a move of their servers and websites, some old DNS records were not removed by their provider.  DNS records form the "phone book" of the Internet, and if they're missing or incorrect - it can make access to particular websites very difficult.  We hope that now this issue has been discovered and rectified, access to Xplorer should now work for those that had trouble.

Please ensure that your PC is up to date and has the latest version of Silverlight installed.  Some older web browsers and operating systems are unable to use Silverlight (check the system requirements on Microsoft's website), if you are connecting from a business - you may need assistance from your IT contact to ensure you're set up correctly.

If you continue to experience issues, please email xplorer@trc.govt.nz and include your operating system and version (e.g. Windows 7, Windows Vista) and web browser and version (e.g. Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox 4).

Navigating the map

	Click the hand tool (pan) and then click and drag the map.  When you let go of the mouse button it will take a few seconds for the map to re-appear.
	Click the zoom in tool, then click and drag a box around the area you want to zoom in on.  The zoom out tool works in the same way.
	Click the globe icon to zoom back out so you can see the entire Taranaki region.

Finding specific information

Rates and property information:

1. Search for a particular address
2. Click the property once in the list of search results, to locate it on the map
3. Double-click to view additional details about the property

Taranaki Regional Council information:

1. Launch Xplorer
2. Enter your search into the textbox in the upper-right corner (e.g. 10 Glasgow)
3. Xplorer will list results on the left of your screen, click one to zoom to it's location