Assessing the worldwide comparison of cadastral systems

Abstract

There is growing interest internationally in land administration and cadastral systems and especially in their role as part of a national Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). The important role the cadastre plays in supporting sustainable development is also well recognised. Both developed and developing countries accept the need to evaluate cadastral systems to help identify areas of improvement and whether their systems are capable of addressing future needs. Countries are continually re-engineering and implementing various aspects of the cadastre, comparing systems and trying to identify best practice within nations of the same socio-economic standing.In order to address this need, members of a team from the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration at the Department of Geomatics, the University of Melbourne, with the support of the United Nations Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific (PCGIAP) and the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), have developed a cadastral template. The template aims to assist the evaluation and benchmarking of cadastral systems and the role they play in SDIs.This paper aims to outline the concept and theory behind the cadastral template as well as analysing the results from 34 completed country templates. Several indicators have been used to analyse and benchmark countries cadastral systems, results of which will contribute to an improved understanding of the complex relationship between cadastral, land administration system and National SDI initiatives. This will also enable a worldwide comparison of cadastral systems, forming the basis for best practice and a tool to improve national cadastral systems. r

Doctoral research on cadastral development

“…A more empirical approach was chosen by Steudler (2004) in his evaluation of land administration systems. In recent years, the comparing and evaluation of cadastral systems and/or land administration systems have attracted attention both from international organizations and from the academics (see Williamson, 2001;Steudler and Kaufmann, 2002;Steudler et al, 2003Steudler et al, , 2004Steudler, 2004;Rajabifard et al, 2007). Nevertheless, currently there are no accepted methodologies and frameworks to compare and evaluate these systems at the international level (Steudler, 2004, p. 3).…”

“…Within the cadastral domain many initiatives have been made which contribute towards theory building, i.e. Modeling of Real Property Transactions (Zevenbergen et al, 2007); Core Cadastral Domain Model (Oosterom et al, 2006); Cadastral Template (Rajabifard et al, 2007); Ontological modeling approaches (Hess and Vaskovich, 2007;Hess and Schlieder, 2007;Navratil and Frank, 2007). Land Administration Guidelines (UNECE, 1996) and Guidelines on Real Estate Units and Identifiers (UNECE, 2004).…”

“…Social and behavioral sciences, i.e. including Economics, Law, Politics, Management and Sociology (Steudler et al, 1997;Kaufmann and Steudler, 1998;Williamson, 2001;Silva and Stubkjaer, 2002;Steudler and Kaufmann, 2002;Ting, 2002;Zevenbergen, 2002;Park, 2003;Steudler et al, 2003Steudler et al, , 2004Törhönen, 2003a;Griffith-Charles, 2004;Steudler, 2004;Dalrymple, 2005;Silva, 2005;Rakai, 2005;Nkwae, 2006;Auzins, 2007;Rajabifard et al, 2007;Stubkjaer et al, 2007;Vitikainen, 2007). C. Formal sciences 2 , i.e.…”

Evaluating land administration systems: A comparative method with an application to Peru and Honduras

“…The other study was jointly developed by the Melbourne University, the United Nations General Secretariat, and the International Federation of Surveyors (see Rajabifard et al, 2007 and http://www.cadastraltemplate.org). This research project used both quantitative and qualitative indicators to compare the national administration systems of 42 countries.…”

Benchmarking land administration systems

“…To je bil prvi korak k zbiranju splošnih informacij o katastrskih sistemih in sistemih upravljanja nepremičnin, tehnološko izveden na podlagi koncepta Web 1.0. (Rajabifard et al, 2007). Z novim konceptom Web 2.0, uvedenim leta 2014, je uporabnikom iz posameznih držav omogočeno enostavno sprotno popravljanje podatkov predloge Cadastral template 2.0, poizvedovanje in primerjava podatkov med različnimi državami ter regijami.…”