NATIONAL LAND SURVEY OF FINLAND – DOWN TO EARTH May 30, 2003UN-ECE WPLA & FIG Workshop, Athens, Greece 1 Customer Expectations for the Contents of Cadastral Information in Finland TPS 7 Procedures for Introducing a Sustainable LA System – Educational Issues UN-ECE WPLA & FIG Workshop Athens, Greece, May 28-31, 2003 Arvo Kokkonen Deputy Director General Pekka Halme Chief Engineer National Land Survey of Finland

NATIONAL LAND SURVEY OF FINLAND – DOWN TO EARTH May 30, 2003UN-ECE WPLA & FIG Workshop, Athens, Greece 2 The beginning of the Finnish cadastral system  the Land Book, est (rural areas)  taxation  the Cadastre, est (rural areas)  area and productive capacity  the Cadastre (urban areas)  Crown land grants  municipal regulations, legislation 1931  actual land use and land use plans

NATIONAL LAND SURVEY OF FINLAND – DOWN TO EARTH May 30, 2003UN-ECE WPLA & FIG Workshop, Athens, Greece 3 Many Cadastres and the Land Register  87 legal cadastres  the rural or NLS cadastre 4 million register units 98 % of total area  86 cities´ cadastres 0,6 million register units 2 % of total area  The Land Register  the Ministry of Justice (Local Courts)

NATIONAL LAND SURVEY OF FINLAND – DOWN TO EARTH May 30, 2003UN-ECE WPLA & FIG Workshop, Athens, Greece 4 Cadastre incl. map The present Land Information System District Courts Municipalities NLS Information Service Customers Personal Information System LIS Cadastre LIS Land Reg. Building and Dwelling Information System LIS

NATIONAL LAND SURVEY OF FINLAND – DOWN TO EARTH May 30, 2003UN-ECE WPLA & FIG Workshop, Athens, Greece 5 The New Land Information System (2007) NLS Municipalities District Courts Customers Maintenance Information Service NLIS Personal Information Buildings and Dwellings The Land Register titles & mortgages The Cadastre including location Land use plans and restrictions

NATIONAL LAND SURVEY OF FINLAND – DOWN TO EARTH May 30, 2003UN-ECE WPLA & FIG Workshop, Athens, Greece 6 The data contents of the LIS should be widened  Availability of a digital cadastral index map  Description of land-use rights and restrictions (i.e. city plans, decisions)  Information about the value of a real property  Information about buildings  real estate market  possession  mortgaging  Address information included in the Cadastre User expectations (1)

NATIONAL LAND SURVEY OF FINLAND – DOWN TO EARTH May 30, 2003UN-ECE WPLA & FIG Workshop, Athens, Greece 7  The information service on the Internet. Delivery of data digitally directly to the users’ systems  The city plans including written plan regulations and the municipal building ordinances  Possible road plans, NATURA-2000 areas, natural conservation areas, protected buildings,exceptional permits, regional plans, protection zones for water intakes, danger zones etc.  Nation-wide information service User expectations (2)

NATIONAL LAND SURVEY OF FINLAND – DOWN TO EARTH May 30, 2003UN-ECE WPLA & FIG Workshop, Athens, Greece 8  A change in the world economy ´the third industrial revolution´  new technologies, particularly information and communication technology  Sustainable development  Urbanization General development trends

NATIONAL LAND SURVEY OF FINLAND – DOWN TO EARTH May 30, 2003UN-ECE WPLA & FIG Workshop, Athens, Greece 9 Conclusions (1)  Cadastral data form a central part of the society‘s base register information  Other basic information will be connected to cadastral data in an ever- greater extent  New types of cadastral information  the state and changes of the environment  relevance to the use and value of a real property

NATIONAL LAND SURVEY OF FINLAND – DOWN TO EARTH May 30, 2003UN-ECE WPLA & FIG Workshop, Athens, Greece 10 Conclusions (2)  Information about buildings in the NLIS is necessary  Purchase price data and taxation value information  Improved ownership information  who is the owner?  what is his/her address?

NATIONAL LAND SURVEY OF FINLAND – DOWN TO EARTH May 30, 2003UN-ECE WPLA & FIG Workshop, Athens, Greece 11 Conclusions (3)  Growing need for  7/24 information service  update cadastral information  Joint use of location information  technology  accuracy  Demand for joint use of data is growing  topographic information connected to the cadastral location data  unlimited possibilities for the use of different socio-economic information

NATIONAL LAND SURVEY OF FINLAND – DOWN TO EARTH May 30, 2003UN-ECE WPLA & FIG Workshop, Athens, Greece 12 Integration of register data using IDs and position as links

NATIONAL LAND SURVEY OF FINLAND – DOWN TO EARTH May 30, 2003UN-ECE WPLA & FIG Workshop, Athens, Greece 13 Closing remarks  Pan-European development of LIS and LA  operational policy  economical, legal, procedural and data administrative challenge  The European Land Information Service project (EULIS)  concrete development project on the cadastral information service  customer service attitude  improve the usability of data  Customer requirements mean  complex nets of data systems  joint data models  standards across borders