Atlas turns open geospatial, aviation, population and energy data into site screens, route and demand models and business cases that councils, airports, developers and health agencies can act on.
Score candidate vertipads, vertiports and charging sites against controlled airspace and aerodrome protection surfaces (Airways AIP), obstacle data (LINZ), district-plan zoning, population and tourist flows, hospitals and existing heliports, conservation and Māori land, flood, wind and fog climatology from Google Earth Engine, and distance to lines-company capacity. Geometry follows CASA's AC 139.V-01 as the planning reference because New Zealand has no vertiport standard yet.
Build origin-destination demand from population, tourism and patient flows. Price travel-time savings against road using accessibility methods (two-step floating catchment, the same family used in health-access research). Apply published fare elasticities rather than optimistic uptake: the Illinois DOT assessment found fare matters three to four times more than access time and mode share stays below 3% at US$6 to 9 a mile. Compute energy per sector from a performance library covering the ALIA CX300, Midnight, S4, Eve-100, EH216-S and Vertiia.
Capex and opex templates, revenue scenarios, cost-benefit and equity tables with sensitivity, exported as a report a council officer can table or an investor can test. Every figure carries its source and date.
Aerodrome load forecasts from sorties and charger power (the Air New Zealand trial used 65 kW units at Hamilton, Wellington and Blenheim), screened against lines-company capacity. Built for airports, developers and electricity distribution businesses.
Hospital vertipad siting, rescue-helicopter base coverage, cost-effectiveness of electric aeromedical missions against helicopters, and rural access equity. Designed with clinical and health-economics methods so funders can audit it.
Route noise contours from published aircraft profiles, affected dwellings, and consultation packs for iwi and communities under New Zealand's changing planning law.
| Dataset | Owner | Used for | Licence and access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Topography, DEM, buildings, aerodromes, cadastre | Toitū Te Whenua LINZ | Obstacle surfaces, site geometry, parcels | CC BY 4.0 for most layers; elevation and imagery carry third-party attribution |
| Airspace, aerodrome charts, AIP | CAA and Airways (AIM) | Controlled airspace, protection surfaces, heliports | Copyright-restricted; commercial reuse under agreement with Airways AIM; Atlas shows derived screens, not raw AIP |
| Aircraft register and statistics | CAA | Fleet by class and operator | Public register |
| Population, dwellings, tourism, commuting | Stats NZ | Demand, noise-exposed population, equity | Open data (CC BY 4.0, confirmed per dataset) |
| Weather and climate | NIWA, MetService, ERA5 via Earth Engine | Route availability climatology | ERA5 open; NIWA and MetService partly commercial |
| Lines-company network maps | Orion, Vector, Powerco and others; Transpower | Grid proximity and capacity | Published maps; capacity under agreement |
| District plans, DOC estate, Māori land | Councils, DOC, LINZ, Te Puni Kōkiri | Consentability, exclusions, iwi engagement | Open; Māori land handled under data-governance terms agreed with iwi partners |
| Australia | Geoscience Australia, Airservices, CASA, ABS | Same layers for the second market | Checked before launch |
A pilot is a real question (a site, a corridor, a hospital network, a master-plan chapter), a region-scoped Atlas licence for six months, a workshop, and a report. NZ$10,000 to 20,000 excluding GST, with co-marketing rights for both sides. Bring the question; we bring a readiness map of your region before the first call.
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