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A cadastre may be defined as an official geographic information system (GIS) which identifies geographical objects within a country, or more precisely, within a jurisdiction. Just like a land registry, it records attributes concerning pieces of land, but while the recordings of a land registry is based on deeds of conveyance and other rights in land, the cadastre is based on measurements and other renderings of the location, size, and value of units of property. The cadastre and the land registry in some countries, e.g., the Netherlands and New Zealand, are managed within the same governmental organization. From the 1990s, the term “land administration system” came into use, referring to a vision of a complete and consistent national information system, comprising the cadastre and the land registry.
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Stubkjær, E. (2016). Cadastre. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23519-6_113-2
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