SUMMARY Emerging demands on cadastral design suggest that cadastres as a functional component of land administration are being redesigned to respond to initiatives in technology, government needs and social drivers. The movements in the property market are demonstrating the need to take into account complex commodities. The surge in regulatory requirements affecting land use and building is par...

SUMMARY Urbanisation is regarded as a significant global trend. This means cities around the world will be accommodating more population. The population demands accommodations as places for living and business activities. Cities have limited land and therefore high-rise structures have become major infrastructures addressing the needs arsing from urbanisation. However, high-rise developments ch...

Unlike other geographical information systems, where physical attributes to land are recorded, cadastres register rights to land and consequently are dependent on the institutions in which they have to operate. Without appropriate legal frameworks and transparent publicadministrative structures, cadastres cannot operate properly. To perform the cadastral tasks of determining, recording and diss...

The importance of managing stratified ownership land rights, restrictions and responsibilities (RRRs) are increasing due to population growth and land shortage, particularly in urban areas. As a result, stakeholders are looking for ways in order to manage land and property information more efficiently. Current approaches for managing and visualising land ownership rights are not efficient in ve...

Our physical world is in three dimensions, but the cadastral systems of the world register real property mostly in two dimensions. This seemingly paradox is not so strange considering the cadastre is an old invention. Modern technology makes it fairly easy to present and map any object in three dimensions. The main obstacle in adopting 3D technology is the legal systems, which are slow to chang...