The Swiss cadastre and the district surveyor
Kauter, Bernhard
Abstracts in English and French. References: p. 553.
The Canadian surveyor. - Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter 1987) ; p. 541-553 : tab.
Although Switzerland is a federal nation, its national government has jurisdiction with respect to land administration. The legal basis for the present cadastral system was established by the Swiss Civil Statute Book in 1912. In this system, all boundaries are tied to coordinate control and a master copy of the property map is kept up-to-date by deleting old boundaries and drawing in new ones as soon as they are legally established; non-boundary changes, such as the ground lines of buildings constructed or removed, are surveyed and plotted annually. In most cantons, all this is done by surveyors in private practice. For each district one surveyor is elected. This paper describes the Swiss cadastre, the role of the district surveyor, the specifications for cadastral surveys, the financial aspects, and how a district surveyor is chosen.
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