BENEFITS AND ISSUES OF DEVELOPING A MULTI-PURPOSE CADASTRE

Graduate Student Thesis

Shamsul Abdul Majid

Masters Research Student
Department of Geomatics
University of Melbourne

The effective and efficient operation of a nation’s cadastral system is an integral part of sustainable development. In recent years, cadastral systems have been influenced by the introduction of the web and Cadastre 2014 that have heavily impacted on the geo-information scene through the development of the Multi-Purpose Cadastre concept. The concept is expected to benefit all levels of governments and society. Increased sharing of datasets, public transactions of data and reduction of administrative costs are a few of the benefits foreseen. In a bid to understand the complexity and structure of the Multi-Purpose Cadastre concept, a review of worldwide online cadastral systems was conducted with its
comparison listed in this paper. Unfortunately, there is little documentation readily available which discusses the issues involved.

With the current trends of distributed computing and the heavy demand for easy access to land information, the development of the Victorian Land Information System (VLIS) concept prototype was conceived. The development was an effort to justify the possibility of delivering cadastral information through a portal site on the World Wide Web. Various issues such as data format, system integrity and performance considerations are discussed in an effort to paint a picture of a futuristic cadastral system.

The contents of this paper are not only aimed to shed some light on the development of online cadastral systems but to contribute further technical understanding from an open research environment.

This paper is part of an on-going research into the evolvement of the traditional cadastral system in recent years. The modern cadastral system has been greatly impacted by the World Wide Web and the global demands for integration and rationalization of title registers and cadastral systems with other related registers. The FIG noted in Cadastre 2014 that such modern cadastral system is becoming a Multi-Purpose Cadastre (MPC). The move towards the MPC concept was apparent through the review of eleven online cadastral systems around
the world by the author. The review noted that even though the systems reviewed were different in many ways, these systems have used the web and the latest information technology to deliver geo-information across the world. Nonetheless, little documentation exists in the understanding of building a MPC. There still remains a number of technical issues that needs to be understood and addressed.

To achieve this, the Victorian Land Information System (VLIS) prototype was developed by the author. VLIS is a portal site on the web that allows distributed geo-information databases to be integrated and served to the public. Through VLIS, the technical issues that affect the storage, management, processing and delivery of geoinformation over the web were analysed and documented.

Taken from thesis at http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXIII/congress/part4/22_XXXIII-part4.pdf