Cadastre

Abstract

There is an increasing need for standardized cadastral systems to enable involved parties to communicate based on shared vocabulary. This chapter provides an overview of standardization efforts in the field of cadastral systems. There is an increasing need for standardized cadastral systems to avoid reinventing and reimplementing the same functionality over and over again and to enable the parties involved, both within one country and between different countries, to communicate, based on the shared vocabulary. Two approaches are introduced: the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) and the INSPIRE Data Specification for Cadastral Parcels.

Standardization does not really make sense without looking back at the roots of cadastral systems. Therefore, the German and the Dutch cadastral systems are discussed in this chapter. Both systems vary significantly and can, thus, be seen as examples of the long cadastral history from the early beginning to modern cadastral systems in the digital age where standardization and information modeling are implemented. In The Netherlands, most effort is put into creating technical and semantic interoperability between cadastral and related spatial information sources, starting from the users’ needs.