Towards a Standard for the Cadastral Domain: Proposal to establish a Core Cadastral Data Model

For many decades researchers and managers of Cadastral systems have been stressing the differences in their systems: deed or title registration, centralized or decentralized, general or fixed boundaries, fiscal or legal cadastre, etc. However, looking at it from a little distance the systems are in principle mainly the same: they are all based on the relationships between subjects (persons) and objects (land, property) via rights. Further, one thing has become clearer everywhere, the Cadastral systems are influenced a lot by the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) developments. In this paper the authors propose the development of a standardized core cadastral data model based on the geographic standards from ISO and OpenGIS and to be developed in cooperation with the FIG.