Find data using the search bar
1. Input your search term
Section titled “1. Input your search term”Using the search bar, enter the keywords for the data you are looking for.
This can be:
- Data layer names “NZ Street Address”
- Locations “Foxton”
- Layer ID Numbers: “107843”
- Publisher: “Koordinates”
The data browser results will automatically update as you input the keywords.
Note: Koordinates search does not search within datasets. For example, a tabular dataset containing a row with the word ‘Pukeko’ will not appear in the list of search results if ‘Pukeko’ is used as the search term.
2. Refine your search
Section titled “2. Refine your search”There are three ways to refine your search results, if needed:
- Filter
- Sort
- Publisher
Filter
Section titled “Filter”There are several filters available to refine your results. Depending on the site, these include:
- Region
- Category (if enabled)
- Data Type
- Date
- License
- Group
- Access
Region
Section titled “Region”This filter allows you to restrict the results to the country associated with your Koordinates ID, globally, or apply a particular country or region of your choice.
Category
Section titled “Category”This feature can be enabled by Site Administrators, to give users the option to show only results from data within a defined Category.
Data Type
Section titled “Data Type”Choose the data type you want to filter by.
Selecting a type, will display additional sub-type options, to further refine your results.
Using the sliders, you can choose to filter by the First Published date, or by Last Updated date.
License
Section titled “License”Choose to filter by the different licences.
Selecting a licence gives you further options to narrow the licence details.
Similar to Categories, you can restrict to view data that’s only available to certain Groups that you are a part of.
Access
Section titled “Access”Choose Only Public Data to see only publicly available data, or Shared With Me to see only private data that has been shared with you.
As you apply filters, they are displayed above your results.
You can sort the results by:
- Popular
- Recently Added
- Recently Updated
- Alphabetical (A-Z)
- Alphabetical (Z-A)
- Oldest
Publisher
Section titled “Publisher”
Use the Publisher filter to find organisations and users that have published datasets you have access to (including public datasets).
Selecting a publisher will filter to only show the datasets published by that organisation. You can then apply additional filters and sorting. For more information, see Find data by publisher.
3. Select the data
Section titled “3. Select the data”The data that matches your search and filters is shown as cards in the data browser. Select a card to open its data sheet, or select Map to add it to the map.
