Cadastre 2014 : still a vision?
Steudler, Daniel
In 1998, the FIG-Commission 7 published vision statements for a future cadastral system, named "Cadastre 2014". The six statements were dealing with the integration of public-rights and restrictions, the integration of services, the digital format and data modelling, publicprivate- partnerships, and the economic sustainability of cadastres. The developments in the cadastral field over the last 10 years were remarkable. From a technical point of view, the digital age has fully arrived; with new and highly improved data acquisition methods such as GPS, orthophoto imagery or laser scanning and the maturing of data provision possibilities through the Internet, nearly all data are now in digital form. From a conceptual point of view, terms such as land administration, spatial data infrastructures (SDI), E-Government or national geodata infrastructure (NGDI) thrived and had a great impact on the geoinformation community and the cadastre. This triggered many institutional changes, reshuffling of services, integration and incorporation of agencies and departments. In a few countries, the cadastre merged with topographic mapping and in some others with land registration organizations. This paper will review these developments and in particular the vision statements of "Cadastre 2014" from a today's perspective.
Event: XXIII International FIG Congress : Shaping the change
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