State of the art modern mapping systems for Ireland
Brent, Paul, Greg McDermott and Fred Inch
In 2005, the Irish Land Registry (ILR) embarked on a major programme to update the mapping systems which form an integral part of its Land Register. The paper based mapping systems have been in operation since 1892.This project was a further phase in its computerisation programme which will at the end of the project cover the entire land registration process in Ireland. The project has allowed ILR to review all aspects of its mapping flowline, including not only the technical aspects but also the necessary staff competencies, skills and work processes. The project has included an ambitious programme to capture information from an archive of 32,000 paper maps covering 2.3 million land parcels held by ILR, each having manual additions of property registration boundaries. The information has been captured as a raster layer in a digital environment. It has then been matched to Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) vector mapping data to bring the property boundaries into the vector mapping layer. This has required innovative systems and working methods to be deployed, involving key contractors in Europe and India.
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