Trying to integrate your cadastre and registry?
In many jurisdictions the cadastre and registry have evolved separately under the control of different agencies and professional bodies. While both deal with land parcels or properties, the cadastre tends to be a function of geodesy and geomatics and addresses the ‘what’ and ‘where’ of the parcel. The registry, on the other hand, is a function of the law and addresses the rights, responsibilities and restrictions associated with the parcel. In contemporary, integrated land administration and management the two require to be integrated into the modern or multi-purpose cadastre that serves as a comprehensive land recording system. This, in turn, can evolve into a cadastral-based land information system that contains data on many land-related environmental, social, and physical attributes.
Integration of a cadastre and registry to create a modern, multi-purpose cadastre is fraught with many challenges including:
· Institutional and organizational change;
· Integration of different professional cultures;
· Staff that is highly conservative;
· Opposition by strong vested interests;
· Education and training;
· Discrepancies in parcel descriptions;
· Data standards and specification;
· General versus fixed boundary approaches;
· Centralization versus decentralization;
· Creation of land conflicts; and
· Maintenance of real time information.
Terradigm and its members have several decades of experience in dealing with these issues, and sharing the experiences with other jurisdictions that have differing histories, cultures and political systems.
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