Cadastral Information System Research Articles

Application of GIS Based Re-Settlement of Land Record of Mouza Shahbat Khel, District Mardan (Pakistan)

A cadastral information system is a set of processes for parcel/property-based data collection, including land tenure, land use, and land value. The primary goal of the Massavi maps at the time was to depict the distribution, status, and yield of arable fields; other information (such as rivers) was relatively inaccurately drawn, leading to geometrical inaccuracies. It results in a significant loss for revenue collection and other objectives. Secondly, It is difficult to overemphasize how necessary knowledge is to the success of any planning, development, or management work. Having a reliable knowledge base is especially crucial for developing countries with limited resources. Another issue that many developing nations encounter is the lack of accurate land records in the real estate market. The cause can include ownership titles, unclear boundaries between private and collective rights, etc. Thus, there is an urgent need to focus on the creation and deployment of a national digital cadastral information system. Given the preceding context, this article outlines all the obstacles and limits that would arise when combining geometric and legal cadastral data to create a new digital cadastral system. A digital cadastral land information system comprises spatial data that represent legal boundaries of land parcels and provides a vital base layer for integration into other spatial Information systems or as a standalone solution that permits users to retrieve, create, update, store, view, analyze and publish land information.

Assessment of the Potential for Increasing the Energy Efficiency in the Cooling Sector

Cooling supply to ensure the indoor microclimate is becoming more important as global average air temperatures rise. With growing societal demands for higher thermal comfort and increasing individual cooling solutions in the building sector, global energy consumption for cooling is increasing accordingly. Scientific literature and studies estimate that the demand for cooling energy will have a significant impact on global energy demand in the future. In compliance with the European Union goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050, it is essential to find solutions for reducing energy consumption in the building sector, which is already among the largest energy consumers and greenhouse gas emission producers. Replacing individual cooling solutions with district cooling in urban areas where higher energy density can be reached is one of the solutions for decarbonizing the building sector. To spatially assess the feasibility of district cooling in certain areas, energy demand mapping can be performed. Within this research mapping is carried out using a geographical information system (GIS) tool. The purpose of the mapping is to identify the places in the city of Riga with the highest district cooling potential. Spatial assessment using a GIS tool can be done in different ways – mostly it depends on the available data. The spatial data (buildings) of the cadastral information system and additional detailed information about buildings were obtained from the Latvian open data portal. Information on the type of use of the building, indoor area and the age of building was attached to each building on the map. Then building energy certificate data containing information on specific energy consumption for cooling (kWh/m2 per year) was obtained from the same portal. By processing the data of energy certificates of buildings, excluding outliers, a specific index was obtained for different types of buildings. For the residential sector, the age of the building is also used. Using cadastral data on the indoor area of buildings and the type of building use, the theoretical cooling demand in Riga is calculated and results are quantified and displayed visually. By visualizing the results with the GIS tool, hot spots with the highest cooling energy demand were detected. Results can be further used to calculate the technical and economic justification for the district cooling solutions in specific areas as well as assess the energy efficiency that would be provided by implementation of district cooling solutions.

Towards Quality Management Procedures in 3D Cadastre

The 3D cadastre presents a modern approach to the development of cadastral information systems, with the role of improving current cadastral systems and overcoming the challenges of a 2D-based approach. Technological advancements, standardization, and scientific research in recent decades have contributed to the development and definition of the 3D cadastre. This positioned the 3D cadastre as an integral part of the future of land administration. However, every country needs to define a solution for itself based on its own legal system and cadastral tradition, while at the same time relying on international standardization and research. Once a 3D cadastral system is developed, it is crucial to ensure the monitoring, evaluation, and maintenance of both the quality of the cadastral data and the system itself throughout its lifecycle. Since 3D cadastres involve geometric data, quality management procedures must address both geometric and alphanumeric data. In this paper, we analyze and present the quality management procedures that should be included during designing, implementing, and maintaining a 3D cadastral system. Some examples based on real cadastral data were used to emphasize the need for improvement in quality management. The presented quality management procedures require further development in order to meet country-specific requirements and to fully support the 3D cadastre information systems.

Kriterijumi za primenu hibridnog modela 3D katastra u Srbiji

3D cadastre as a modern approach to the development of the cadastral information system brings many advantages and solves the difficulties that the current cadastral system faces when it comes to registration and visualization of complex 3D situations. Accordingly, transitioning to a 3D cadastral system requires significantly more resources because it is necessary to collect, process, store, maintain, and distribute data in three dimensions. To open a more accessible path to implementing a 3D cadastre, a hybrid model is one of the proposed approaches. This implies that current 2D cadastral data are used as much as possible, and that in locations where it is not possible to unambiguously present properties and boundaries, a 3D approach is used. In this paper, the basic criteria defining when a 3D approach is necessary within the hybrid model are discussed and presented. A basic assessment of the relationship between 2D and 3D approaches is provided within a case study.

Evolution of the cadastre renewal understanding in Türkiye: A fit-for-purpose renewal model proposal

Keeping the cadastre up to date is as important as establishing it for securely conducting people-to-land relations. As a concept, cadastral renewal refers to digitising the cadastral plan and correcting errors because of cadastre in the legal land registry information, updating them in a format and structure to create infrastructure for spatial information systems, making them available for use. Before 1987, cadastral work was conducted following various production methods and laws of the period. As a result of rapid urbanisation, the transformation of rural areas into urban areas, and the increase in the value of parcels, the delay in land-related investment projects because cadastral data and technical documents do not meet the expectations of accuracy and completeness, has been discussed for a long time in the country. Cadastral renewal projects carried out in places of urgent need because of technical and legal problems have become state policies with the Land Registry and Cadastre Modernization Project (TKMP), initiated in 2007 using the resources provided by the World Bank. In this project, it was determined that 22.3 million of the existing 58.3 million cadastral parcels in Türkiye should be renewed. As of 2021, approximately 14 million parcels have been renewed by the participation of the private sector while the renewal of the rest has been ongoing. This study examined the adequacy of the existing land registry and cadastre data within the scope of rural cadastral renewal. In this framework, the cadastral technical file, land book, and land registry information in the Land Registry and Cadastre Information System (TAKBIS) were compared within the classification framework, and their differences were determined. In addition, the parcel areas calculated by initial cadastral surveys years ago to establish the cadastre were compared with the legal areas and new areas of the parcels calculated after the renewal. It was found that 90.37% of the parcel areas calculated based on the initial surveys were consistent with those calculated after the renewal, whereas 67.47% were consistent with the legal areas within the tolerance values. According to these results, supported by other findings, cost-effective and rapid cadastre renewal has been proposed.

Investigation and Implementation of New Technology Wearable Mobile Laser Scanning (WMLS) in Transition to an Intelligent Geospatial Cadastral Information System

The human population is constantly increasing throughout the world, and accordingly, construction is increasing in the same way. Therefore, there is an emergence of irregular and unplanned urbanization. In order to achieve the goal of preventing irregular and unplanned urbanization, it is necessary to monitor the cadastral borders quickly. In this sense, the concept of a sensitive, up-to-date, object-based, 3D, and 4D (4D, 3D + time) cadastral have to be a priority. Therefore, continuously updating cadastral maps is important in terms of sustainability and intelligent urbanization. In addition, due to the increase in urbanization, it has become necessary to update the cadastral information system and produce 3D cadastral maps. However, since there are big problems in data collection in urban areas where construction is rapid, different data-collection devices are constantly being applied. While these data-collection devices have proven themselves in terms of accuracy and precision, new technologies have started to be developed in urban areas especially, which is due to the increase in human population and the influence of environmental factors. For this reason, LiDAR data collection methods and the SLAM algorithm can offer a new perspective for producing cadastral maps in complex urban areas. In this study, 3D laser scanning data obtained from a portable sensor based on the SLAM algorithm are tested, which is a relatively new approach for cadastral surveys in complex urban areas. At the end of this study, two different statistical comparisons and accurate analyses of the proposed methodology with reference data were made. First, WMLS data were compared with GNSS data and RMSE values for X, Y, and Z, and were found to be 4.13, 4.91, and 7.77 cm, respectively. In addition, WMLS length data and cadastral length data from total-station data were compared and RMSE values were calculated as 4.76 cm.

Exploring the Use of Orthophotos in Google Earth Engine for Very High-Resolution Mapping of Impervious Surfaces: A Data Fusion Approach in Wuppertal, Germany

Germany aims to reduce soil sealing to under 30 hectares per day by 2030 to address negative environmental impacts from the expansion of impervious surfaces. As cities adapt to climate change, spatially explicit very high-resolution information about the distribution of impervious surfaces is becoming increasingly important for urban planning and decision-making. This study proposes a method for mapping impervious surfaces in Google Earth Engine (GEE) using a data fusion approach of 0.9 m colour-infrared true orthophotos, digital elevation models, and vector data. We conducted a pixel-based random forest (RF) classification utilizing spectral indices, Grey-Level Co-occurrence Matrix texture features, and topographic features. Impervious surfaces were mapped with 0.9 m precision resulting in an Overall Accuracy of 92.31% and Kappa-Coefficient of 84.62%. To address challenges posed by high-resolution imagery, we superimposed the RF classification results with land use data from Germany’s Authoritative Real Estate Cadastre Information System (ALKIS). The results show that 25.26% of the city of Wuppertal is covered by impervious surfaces coinciding with a government-funded study from 2020 based on Sentinel-2 Copernicus data that defined a proportion of 25.22% as built-up area. This demonstrates the effectiveness of our method for semi-automated mapping of impervious surfaces in GEE to support urban planning on a local to regional scale.

Where are cities under pressure? – An indicator for measuring the impact of building changes on urban density

In the course of urbanisation, cities are becoming increasingly dense with high local variability. Worldwide, there is a high demand for living space, especially in larger cities, which leads to settlement pressure. It is a declared goal to further densify cities in order to avoid the consumption of ecologically valuable land. But cities that are too densely built also bring negative consequences. Therefore, it is important to understand and describe the densification processes of cities. To better describe settlement densification processes, we have developed a novel indicator that can be used to determine changes in the development density, which is of interest from a planning perspective. The indicator takes into account both the extent of the building change and the existing development. If an area is already intensively developed, a newly constructed building will result in a higher density than if that building were built in a previously undeveloped area. The indicator can also be used to measure deconstruction effects symmetrically, so that densification and de-densification processes can be analysed in parallel. In addition, various spatial entities such as cadastral parcels, grid cells or city districts can be used as reference areas for indicator calculation. In addition to an area-based analysis, we have also taken into account the number of storeys of each building, which allows us for more precise calculations. We tested the indicator in this study using the City of Hamburg as an example. Freely accessible building floor plans and parcels from 2015 and 2020, taken from the Authoritative Real Estate Cadastral Information System (ALKIS) of the City of Hamburg, served as the data basis. Furthermore, we used land use data to examine how various land use classes differ in terms of density development. The results show that extensive densification is often observed on previously built-up land, especially in the city centre, which indicates particularly high settlement pressure. Newly developed residential areas are also densely built up, but comparatively do not contribute to such high building density. On the one hand, this indicates an efficient and thus sparing use of the finite resource of land in the city. On the other hand, it points to increasingly dense development in the city centre.

THE STATE LAND CADASTRE IN THE V.I. VERNADSKY NOOSPHERIC CONCEPT

Cadastral systems are most often a geo-information system that ensures the accumulation and storage of typical information, for example, the state land cadastre is a single state geo-information system of information about lands located within the state border of Ukraine, their purpose, restrictions on their use, as well as data on the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of lands, their assessment, on the distribution of lands between owners and users, on land reclamation networks and constituent parts of land reclamation networks But the use of standard cadastres does not allow solving a wide range of complex tasks related to information about land, real estate, water resources, etc., therefore, it conditions the development of conceptual provisions for the creation of an integrated intelligent cadastral system. Modern cadastres solve a narrow range of typical tasks, mainly providing the user with up-to-date information for solving private typical tasks. An attempt to integrate separate cadastral systems and the development of special programs that support decision-making by users (stakeholders) in various spheres of human activity will lead to a synergistic effect and the creation of collective artificial intelligence. This work formulates the problem of creating an information management system based on the methods of geomatics, as well as the methods and concepts of V. I. Vernadskyi's teaching. In our opinion, the weakening of the contradictions of the formulated problem lies in the way of creating a theoretical and methodological base, which should take into account the features of spatially distributed information modelling, as well as the creation of knowledge models in the field of geodesy and land management. The authors of this article are convinced that a new methodological paradigm of V. I. Vernadskyi's teaching is currently being formed. This belief is based on the great possibilities of modern information technologies, the development of modern geodetic instrumentation, as well as the results of modelling objects that require both high-precision measurements and soft calculations and linguistic assessments. The land cadastral information and management system should include executive and management subsystems and take into account the features of spatially distributed information modelling, as well as the creation of knowledge models in the field of geodesy and land management. Keywords: state land cadastre, geoinformation system, geomatics, information management system, cadastral data.

CADASTRAL REGISTRATION OF REAL PROPERTY WITH DATA DIGITALIZATION

Problem statement. The transition in Ukraine from registration and accounting of land in the State Land Cadastre to registration and accounting of real estate in the multi-purpose cadastre requires research aimed at optimizing the information of the multi-purpose cadastre and the form of data representation based on their digitalization to limit the size of the database by technological support. The composition and scope of real estate accounting information data determine the purpose and functions of the multi-purpose cadastre. The problem is the huge amount of information about real estate and the great variety of objects. The difficulty of formalizing too much data for a multi-purpose cadastre information system makes it necessary to explore ways to reduce the amount of software memory involved by digitizing the data. Purpose of the article. Solving the problem of reducing the amount of memory for the database of registration and accounting of real estate through digitalization requires research on the composition of the necessary information about real estate in the multi-purpose cadastre to ensure the functions of the cadastre based on analysis of users' needs. In order to move from the information on real estate determined by the results of analysis to the basic and thematic geospatial data of the cadastre, it is necessary to perform multilevel structuring of cadastral objects at the level of real estate classification, including land plots, construction objects by characteristic legal, technical and value features. A significant reduction in the amount of memory used in the database of information technology support of the multi-purpose cadastre was achieved by coding the characteristics of real estate, including land, construction objects and other land improvements that are part of real estate. Conclusion. Digitization of real estate data in the multi-purpose cadastre allows you to: significantly reduce the amount of database memory used on the server; provide easy access to data on real estate properties; significantly increase the protection of identification of cadastral objects and their properties; opens new opportunities for real estate management, control over compliance with the law, the application of targeted measures to stimulate the desired development of real estate and prevent adverse use of territories.

Designing and implementing a LADM-based cadastral information system in Serbia, Montenegro and Republic of Srpska

A reliable and efficient land administration plays a vital role in the country's development. For that purpose, records that ensure data management about real properties, rights, and legal or natural persons that are right holders should be well organized. Maintenance of cadastral records in Serbia, Montenegro, and the Republic of Srpska (one of the two entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina) have encountered many issues in recent years. There was a need for modernization to provide more efficient cadastral information systems. Following the recommendations to implement all international standards related to the field of interest to achieve interoperability and incorporate best practices, it was natural to consider the development of the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) country profiles and LADM based cadastral information systems in these case countries and the region. The domain models had to comply with the national laws, so the regulations also had to be analyzed in detail. Once the domain models were established and verified on the conceptual level, they were implemented as part of the technical solution for the cadastral information systems in the case countries and the region. The goal of the paper is to share the experience gained during the process of design and implementation of LADM based cadastral information systems in Serbia, Montenegro and the Republic of Srpska. This experience is summarized into methodological steps grouped into four design and implementation phases. These phases include conceptual modelling and development of LADM based country profiles in these regions, the definition of real estate cadastre business processes, database implementation and data migration, and finally, country profile's implementation in the form of a technical solution that is in use in cadastral offices and on the Web. The outcomes that resulted from the activities conducted in each of these steps are presented. The goal is also to present challenges we met during conducting activities in these phases and findings we reached in the process so they can be used as a basis for some other work and a more general methodology that will cover larger areas and countries outside Europe.

УПРАВЛЕНИЕ МИНЕРАЛЬНЫМИ РЕСУРСАМИ: АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРАВОВЫЕ ВОПРОСЫ

Objective of the article is to consider the actual legal issues on mineral resource management. The article also deals with the specifics of subsurface objects of law, actual problems of Cadastral Registry and State registration of real property mineral rights are analyzed. Applied methods : include case study, comparison, legal norm interpretation, methods of formal logic and others. Results: the peculiarity of the mineral right is not only in a stable and termless nature of use but also in the strong connection between the rights to the subsurface parcel, surface plot and subsurface structures. The underground sites and underground structures should be identified as three-dimensional objects of law. Conclusion . An integrated amendment package to improve the mining and civil legislation is needed, including the Law dated February 21, 1992 No. 2395-1 "On Subsoil" modified by the Law of December 8, 2020 N 429-FZ. In the cadastral information system, conditions for three-dimensional registration of facilities should be created.

Improvement of cadastral information provisioning system in an administrative region

Improvement of the land cadastre information system in the administrative district will make more efficient use of the land fund. More than 42,000 land users in Kibray, which is the object of the research, can quickly manage land resources through the creation of land information systems. As a result, the use of specialized software at the district level increases the quality of the specialists’ work compared to traditional methods, and time consuming 3 and 5 times the amount of data transmission to consumers. The collected and regulated data will serve as the main source of the unified system of land registration in Kibray district and the creation of a special land fund and its rational distribution among land users. The method developed to compile a digital cadastre map based on an example of an administrative district is the basis for the registration of land parcel and, in turn, the land fund distribution. Information on the state of land resources is mainly collected in the State Land Cadastre. Registration of the rights to the land parcel, the main component of which is the re-registration of new land users and the existing ones, requires the most up-to-date information on the land cadastre.

Impact of resolution of DEM on the calculation of design floods in a small mountainous basin

A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is a powerful tool for representing the surface of a particular area of interest. The containing data in the DEM is used for determining the characteristics of the surface. The main factor regarding the quality of such data is the resolution of the DEM. In this paper, the authors focus on the impact of the resolution of the two DEMs that were used to calculate a design flood in the Boca River basin. The Boca River basin is a small mountainous catchment located in the Low Tatras National Park in Slovakia. The authors have used digital elevation models of the Boca River basin with a 20 x 20 m and 1 x 1 m resolution of the raster and the S- JTSK coordinate system. The DEMs were downloaded from the Basic Database for GIS (ZBGIS®) which is a part of the spatial database of the cadastral information system in Slovakia. The design values of short-term rainfalls from actual observations from the Kráľová Lehota - Čierny Váh climatological station and the Corine Land Cover land use map for 2018 were used as an input for the calculation of the design floods. The design floods (Qn)were estimated for the return period (N) of 10, 20, 50 and 100 years, using the Soil Conservation Service - Curve Number method, and ArcGIS software and raster tools. The peak design floods were estimated by calculating the time concentration, the maximum potential river basin retention, the design rainfall intensity, the depth of the runoff, and the volume of the flood wave. The aim of the paper was to compare the results of these calculations when the two different quality resolution DEMs are used. The results show that the design floods calculated using the more precise DEM with a 1 x 1 m raster were lower by 3.9% than the design floods calculated using the DEM with the 20 x 20 m raster.

CREATION FOR A CADASTRAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR GONIN GORA LAYOUT IN CHIKUN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

This study was carried out to determine the geographic information system (GIS) as a tool to examine spatial patterns of Gonin Gora layout in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state. The study involves acquiring spatial and attribute data of the study area, creating relevant spatial layers containing vital information about the parcel within the area of study, designing an appropriate database using relational database model (RDBM) cadastral information system and demonstrating the usability of the cadastral information system (CIS) that was created by carrying out simple queries. The research procedure also involves data acquisition using Promark 3 GPS instrument, database design and spatial queries using ARCGIS (10.1). Three(3) single criteria queries were generated for parcel earmarked for religion worship, parcel set for educational purposes, parcels for commercial purposes were identified and multi- criteria seven (7) queries were generated. The database was created and it was successfully test run for cadastral information system as effective tool for quick retrieval of information

TOWARDS INTEGRATION OF LADM AND CITYGML FOR THE CADASTRAL SYSTEM OF TURKEY

Abstract. With the rapid urbanization and the dynamics in land transactions, Turkish cadastre, as in many other countries, is facing challenges in the daily recording of sales, donations, taxations, and mortgages on land. Especially with the modern constructions and complex interrelationships of rights, restrictions, and responsibilities (RRR), the third dimension should not be forgotten. In this context, the design of a new cadastre data model for Turkey is essential. Inspired by this need, with this study, we aim in proposing a new cadastre model based on international standards such as Land Administration Data Model (LADM) and CityGML. LADM represents the legal and administrative aspects of the cadastral objects but does not show the semantic and 3D geometrical representation of physical cadastral objects which are required for the process of 3D cadastre. Therefore, in the paper, we propose an Application Domain Extension (ADE) for the cadastral objects that expands the integration of LADM and CityGML data model with the legal and administrative concepts defined in the Turkish Law. The study presents a detailed overview of the Turkish legal cadastre system and a proposal for its physical realization based on international standards. In addition, the developed ADE is also valuable for cadastral services undertaken by the General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre (GDLRC). It could also be used as a basis of a 3D national data standard for cadastral information systems.

USING THE SYNERGY OF QFIELD FOR COLLECTING DATA ON-SITE AND QGIS FOR INTERACTIVE MAP CREATION BY ALKIS® DATA EXTRACTION AND IMPLEMENTATION IN POSTGRESQL FOR URBAN PLANNING PROCESSES

Abstract. The German law concerning Urban Development Promotion (Städtebauförderungsgesetz; StBauFG) is an important component of the Building Law (Baugesetzbuch). It enables municipalities to be financially supported by the federal and provincial governments for promoting urban development in downtown areas being in need of renovation, maintaining historical centers, or enhancing the value of socially imbalanced areas. Therefore, the law plays an important role for the economical, ecological, social and cultural status of cities. If an urban renovation area is formally declared the reconstruction measures taking place there lead to an upgrading of the real estate land values. The present work contributes on one side to the initial phase for the declaration of an urban renovation area and on the other side to the final phase comprising the legal accounting procedure. At first, the city planners must document the urban status concerning the structure and quality of buildings, vacancy rate for housing and industry, road condition and numerous other urban quality and structure deficits. To acquire these data, the open-source GIS plugin QField serves as an appropriate and easy to handle tool installed on a tablet for the urban planners to collect the necessary data on-site. The planners can then easily assign defined qualities and states of the objects on a map or edit and comment new objects and attributes. Through automatic updating of these data in the PostgreSQL-database, an interactive map in QGIS will then be automatically created in Python. For the last phase, the legal closure of a declared renovation area, our work supports the analysis and modelling of the relationships in the Authoritative Real Estate Cadastre Information System ALKIS® in order to identify the property owners being charged a so-called balance payment for the upgrading of the standard land values resulting from the applied renovation measures. The work shows the high potential of the ALKIS® data being processed with open-source software like PostgreSQL, QGIS, and QField towards a more effective urban planning.

Creation of Cadastral Information System for Staff Quarters in Covenant University-Ota, Ogun State

Creation of Cadastral Information System for Staff Quarters in Covenant University-Ota, Ogun State

A LADM-based temporal cadastral information system for modelling of easement rights – A case study of Turkey

Type people to land relations are dynamic and, as a consequence, the nature of land title and cadastral data is of a dynamic nature. Land title and cadastral data are core components for a lot of property applications (e.g. taxation, valuation, mortgage). Those applications require up to date, complete and reliable data – including temporal data as in use in application forms and transactions. In this paper, the modelling of Rights, Restrictions and Responsibilities (RRR) is discussed with a focus on the modelling of easement rights in a case study in Turkey. Functional requirements with respect to the characteristics of easement rights are investigated based upon interviews with professional experts in the public and private sector. Then a prototype model was built based on a simple implementation of the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) RRR classes and by conforming to the national cadastral data management standards related to land registration systems. This new proposed model includes temporal cadastral attributes related to easements. This is materialised in the ‘Administrative Package’ and illustrated in the Turkey LADM country profile. We show that the LADM can be used to describe for the time dimension of cadastral information in Turkey, but that there are semantic differences, similarities and mismatches of classes and attributes between the LADM and the cadastral information system in Turkey. Proposed LADM-based model for the time dimension of cadastral information will be of immense advantage to land administrators, the governments and land users in Turkey.

The Changing Uses of Cadastral Information: A User-Driven Case Study

Cadastral information and land administration systems are central to effective land markets, land use and sustainable development. This paper focuses on one aspect of land administration dynamism: the changing uses of cadastral information. We follow a qualitative approach and offer an overview of why, how, and in what form user groups use cadastre and land register data in Finland. We then explore different user groups’ perceptions of emerging changes and discuss their implications for the future land administration system. We identify six major changes that potentially have such implications: the streamlining of environmental permit procedures, the integration of public services, three-dimensional land use planning, tightening banking regulations, digital services, and e-government, and coordination among public data agencies. The paper addresses the relatively unexplored customer side of cadastral information and reiterates the need for an interoperable, accurate and reliable land administration system.