Not required reading, but reasonable suggestions from some of the geospatial community. Please feel free to post additional resources on here as you become aware of them!
Data contributed to the Mash Up by the Spatial Sciences Institute, and graciously served by Napier City Council: https://maps.napier.govt.nz/mashup_2008.php [IT] - Updated.
And some public web services from our favorite NZ GIS community web site: http://www.gis.org.nz/wiki/NZ_Web_Mapping_Services
Also please try some public data available from New Zealand on a global server: www.openstreetmap.org
[GW] http://www.zenbu.co.nz - POI data
[GW] Welcome to use data from the NZ Open GPS Project (standard LINZ attributation / Crown copyright) - see http://gwprojects.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=348 for info on extracting ESRI shapefiles from the .mp source files
