See what's underground.
Before you break it.
NZ's open utility map. Pin your worksite, see which power, water, gas and comms operators have assets nearby — instantly. No 10-day wait for plans. No PDF inbox to sift through.
No credit card. No membership. Map your first site in 30 seconds.
Ask. Wait. Hope.
NZ's default for finding utilities is a request form, an inbox, and a mental jigsaw — every time you need to know.
- 5–10 working days
Each operator processes locate requests on their own clock. Plans dribble in over weeks.
- A folder of PDFs
Different formats, scales, colours. You're left mentally overlaying eight separate documents.
- Quote without seeing
Pricing a job? You can't justify a 10-day wait every time you cost an estimate.
- Skip the locate, hope for the best
Small jobs feel disproportionate to the request process. That's where strikes happen.
Three steps. Thirty seconds.
From dig-curious to dig-confident — without sending a single email.
Pin your worksite
Drop a pin anywhere in NZ — your project address, a postcode, or a click on the map.
See nearby utilities instantly
Power, water, gas and comms reveal themselves on one combined map — no waiting, no juggling PDFs.
Contact operators · share with your crew
Get phone numbers, locate-request links and a shareable map URL. Send to your team, your client, your inspector.
Locate without the wait.
- Submit a formal request
- Wait for each operator to respond
- Receive 6–12 separate PDFs
- Manually overlay them yourself
- Repeat for every new site
- Pin your worksite on the map
- See operators nearby instantly
- All utility types on one canvas
- Built-in operator contact directory
- Shareable link to your dig plan
UtilityFinder doesn't replace your obligation to request a formal locate before excavation — it's the planning, quoting and visibility layer that sits before it.
129 operators. 16 regions.
From Northpower to Powerco, Watercare to Christchurch City Council, Chorus to Tuatahi First Fibre — our directory covers NZ utility operators across every region, with contact details and locate request links in one place.
Avoiding costly mistakes, cheaply.
Free for everyone, always. Power-user features for the price of a flat white.
Free
Initial scoping & seeing what data's available in your area.
- Utilities in your area
- Basic combined utility map
- Operator directory
Explorer
Find out exactly what's near your worksite, with full filtering.
- Everything in Free
- Filter by utility type
- Inspect any utility
- Shareable map link
Map your worksite in 30 seconds.
Free to start. No card required. The fastest way to know what's under your project — and the fastest way to keep your crew safe.
NZ's combined underground utility map
UtilityFinder is the open New Zealand utility map: a single, continuously-updated view of every electricity distribution network, drinking-water and wastewater pipe, gas reticulation main and telecommunications cable in the country. We index data from 16 regional councils, 67 territorial authorities, all 27 lines companies (EDBs), 5 reticulated gas operators, and the major national fibre and copper carriers including Chorus, Tuatahi First Fibre, Northpower Fibre and Enable Networks.
Find underground cables and pipes before you dig
Whether you're a builder pricing a renovation, a landscaper digging fence-post holes, a council planner scoping a 3-waters upgrade or a homeowner planting a tree, UtilityFinder gives you instant visibility of operators in our directory with assets near your project. We pull together electricity GIS, council water GIS, gas distribution GIS and communications GIS layers from the operators that publish them — and point you to the locate request page for those that don't.
Built for every NZ region
Coverage spans every NZ region: Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, Taranaki, Manawatū-Whanganui, Wellington, Tasman, Nelson, Marlborough, West Coast, Canterbury, Otago and Southland. Browse by region or operator to find the lines company, council water network, gas distributor or fibre LFC serving your area.
Why combined utility data matters
Cable and pipe strikes are New Zealand's most common — and most expensive — site safety incident. The vast majority happen on small jobs where the contractor never requested formal locate plans. By making utility data instantly visible (no membership, no wait), UtilityFinder lowers the friction so even the smallest jobs get done with eyes open.