Built on official open data.
Every fact in a HomeScope report comes from a public agency or open dataset, queried live when you run the report. Here is where each part comes from and the licence it is used under.
Property and natural hazards
Source: Auckland Council Open Data. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Contains data sourced from Auckland Council.
| Dataset | Used for |
|---|---|
| Address points | Address search and suggestions |
| Property parcels | Boundary, legal description, record of title, land area |
| Unitary Plan base zone | Planning zone |
| Flood plains | 1% annual chance rainfall flooding |
| Flood prone areas | Low points where water can pond |
| Flood sensitive areas | Land next to flood plains |
| Overland flow paths | Stormwater flow routes |
| Coastal inundation: 1% AEP, and 1% AEP with 1 m sea-level rise | Storm-tide flooding today and in future |
| Liquefaction vulnerability: calibrated and basic assessments | Liquefaction |
| Shallow and large-scale landslide susceptibility | Landslides |
| Tsunami evacuation zones (GNS Science, 2023) | Tsunami zones |
Earthquakes
Source: GeoNet earthquake catalogue. Licence: CC BY 3.0 NZ, under the GeoNet data policy.
We acknowledge the New Zealand GeoNet programme and its sponsors NHC, Earth Sciences NZ, LINZ, NEMA and MBIE for providing the data used in HomeScope. HomeScope uses earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more since 1970, and leaves out events GeoNet classes as blasts or explosions.
Schools
Source: Ministry of Education Schools Directory on Education Counts, read through data.govt.nz. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Gives school names, type, authority (state, integrated or private), roll size, enrolment schemes and locations. The directory is updated nightly.
Public transport
Source: Auckland Transport open GIS data: bus stops, train stations and ferry terminals. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Suburb info
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, read through the Wikimedia REST API. Text licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. HomeScope shows the opening summary of the article about the property's suburb, credited and linked to the full article. Wikipedia is written by volunteers, so treat it as background reading, not verified fact. It is not used in the HomeScope score.
Map
Map tiles: OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. The map is drawn with MapLibre.