A sustainable cadastre for New Zealand
Grant, Don
New Zealand has an AAA (accurate, authoritative and assured) digital cadastral system, based on an accurate geodetic system and supporting a digital land registration system. Survey transactions are lodged in an intelligent digital format which enables semi-automated validation of the survey data. Landowners in New Zealand have a high level of confidence in cadastral boundaries. Despite these advantages, there are doubts that the current cadastral system design will prove to be sustainable over the next 10 20 years. The rapid development of positioning technology is putting surveying and geospatial applications into the hands of the general public and, in particular, landowners. Geospatial datasets are improving rapidly in terms of accessibility and accuracy. To date, new survey and computer technology has been used to make improvements to the efficiency of the task of boundary surveying but many of the fundamentals of cadastral surveying in New Zealand remain largely unchanged. How will the cadastre remain responsive and relevant to the changing expectations of landowners in the future?
Event: FIG Working Week 2012 : Territory, environment, and cultural heritage
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