Time for an update, now that the Ministry of Education and DoC* have accepted their respective OIA requests.
So of the four original OIA requests:
- Ministry of Health – for District Health Boards. OIA request fulfilled. View District Health Boards boundaries.
- Ministry of Education – for School Zones. OIA request fulfilled. View NZ School Zones.
- Department of Conservation – for New Zealand walking tracks. OIA request accepted, but with a time extension; data to be delivered in May.
- NZ Fire Service – for NZ Suburbs. OIA request denied. A complaint has been sent to the Office of the Ombudsmen. Read the official NZFS response.
* The Department of Conservation recently responded that it will take them longer than 20 working days to deliver their New Zealand walking tracks dataset, but they’re aiming for fulfilment by end May.
[...] 24, 2009 by Ed Corkery A recipient of one of our earlier OIA requests told me last week that their team found it useful to run through the internal procedures necessary [...]