This dataset contains visitor management zones (VMZ) for public conservation land, as defined in the Conservation Management Strategy documents since 2012. The zones attribute public conservation land with a ‘recreation class’ that defines the type of experience the topography and accessibility imply. The visitor management zones are defined for the administrative area that each Conservation Management Strategy is written for. The data is originally based on an implementation of the Recreational Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) model (Taylor, 1993), which incorporates ‘the activity, the setting and the experience’ of an area to produce a classification of the opportunity that the area offers. This data was adapted to form this more applicable, regionally focused visitor management zone dataset.The dataset is primarily for cartographic purposes and should not be used for legal definition. The public conservation land that the visitor management zones are based on are valid as of the date identified in the data.The visitor management zones defined in this dataset need to be taken in context of the relevant Conservation Management Strategy document. For more information on Conservation Management Strategies visit https://www.doc.govt.nz/about-us/our-policies-and-plans/statutory-plans/conservation-management-strategies*LICENCEThis work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.DISCLAIMER 1. DOC makes no express or implied warranties as to the accuracy or completeness of the data or information, nor its suitability for any purpose. Errors are inevitably part of any database, and can arise by a number of means, from errors during field data collection, to errors during data entry. 2. DOC makes no warranties or representations as to possible infringement upon copyrights or other intellectual property rights of others in the data or information. 3. DOC will not accept liability for any direct, indirect, special or consequential damages, losses or expenses howsoever arising and relating to use, or lack of use, of the data or information supplied.GUIDELINES FOR THE USE OF THE INFORMATION 4. Care should be taken in deriving conclusions from any data or information supplied.5. Any use of the data or information supplied should state when the data or information was acquired and that it may now be out-of-date.COPYRIGHT OBLIGATIONS***6. All proprietary rights to the intellectual property in the data or information remain with the Crown as its sole property. 7. Modification of the data and information or the addition of the information does not confer copyright or any other form of property of the original material to a user. 8. All maps or reports that are derived from the data or information must acknowledge the Crown copyright, in the following way: Crown Copyright: Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai [year]. 9. This information resource may be passed onto another party, in either hard copy or electronic form. If a user does this, then it is recommended that they also supply this metadata record with the information resource.
