1. The Development of the Austrian Cadastre from Documentation to an Integrated Planning and Decision Support System
WPLA - Working Party on Land Administration
15-17 October 2014, Vienna, Austria
Wernher Hoffmann

2. Real estate infrastructure, fit for use?
Land register, fit for use?
Cadastre, fit for use?
But what means “fit for use?”

3. Clients want…… … a fast process of property building … legal certainty
… traceability
… orientation, documentation and information
… accessibility and availability of information
… information up to date and even from the past
… all the information wherever they are
… all the information whenever they want
… integrable and machine-readable data
… additional information digital available …
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4. Customer requirements developed over time
Land administration systems have a strong impact on legislation of other administrative tasks.
A strong interaction between system design and customer requirements exist.
Understanding legal and system constraints is absolutely necessary, because in land administration history is nearly unchangeable.
Therefore understanding the history is knowing, what was the main purpose.
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5. Main purposes were added over time
Purpose of taxation: “Property Tax Cadastre”
since 1817…
since 1873 cadastre and land register in “accordance”
Purpose of legal certainty: “legal cadastre”
since 1969 surveyed boundaries are legally binding
Purpose of automation
since 1980 Real Property Register (no boundary information)
since 1987 Digital Cadastral Map (boundary information)
Purpose of information
since 2003 Dissemination System eGeodata Austria
Purpose of integration
since 2010 product web services
since 2012 integrated Process between Cadastre and Land Reg.
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6. Cadastre: from Documentation … 1817 -
The Cadastre documented primarily the relative position of parcels to another
Therefore the cadastral map was a picture with very little legal relevance
The main purpose of cadastre was taxation. Therefore the updating of the Cadastre had a low priority and was carried out only once a year.
The archive of documents was more important, but in doubt the situation in nature was more valid then the deeds.
Every Cadastral Unit has a cadastral map (Island maps)
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7. … to a reference documentation system…
Development of a system of rectangular map sheets all over the country
Gauß-Krüger projection was the mathematical basis
With the scale 1:1000 the cadastral map was the most detailed reference information
Cadastral information was public and therefore available for other documentation purposes
Geoinformation recorded for other purposes for example infrastructure building, Rural Development, Regional Planning, etc. was documented on copies of the cadastral map
Million of blueprints of the cadastral maps were made each year and were then updated with the additional information
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Wernher Hoffmann

8. ….to an information system …
Digitization of the cadastral map
Public authorities and infrastructure companies started using the Digital Cadastral Map as an information system
therefore changed the requirements of CAD to GIS
the correct topology of the data was a big challenge
topological structures enabled the intersection and integration with other data (e.g. Real estate database, zoning, ...)
problem: Distribution and up-to- date-ness of data
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Wernher Hoffmann

9. … integrated Planning and Decision Support System
Requirements:
Fast and reliable maintenance of date (no gaps)
Traceability (Process documentation and historicization)
The legal relevant information of the surveying deeds must be the same in the digital cadastral map
Online availability
Web services for online integration in customer systems
Individual data requests on single objects and entities
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Wernher Hoffmann

10. Big Picture of Cadastre and Land register
Ministry of Justice land register
Ministry of Finance
Soil evaluation
Ministry of Economy
Cadastre
District court 116
Tax offices 42
BEV
Cadastral Offices 41
Land Reg.
Maintenance
Synchronisation
Cadastre
Maintenance
Land reg. distribution
Interfaces
eGA distribution
GDB – real estate DB
Notary, ca. 400
Provider WWW
BEV Portal
Licensed surveyor
ca. 270
Users
citizens, legal entities, banks, companies, ….
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11. Cadastre and Land Register in Austria
Proof of location, plot size, land cover … of parcels based on surveying documents, cadastral map, parcel register …
Authority: Cadastral office
Proof of the legal situation of parcels:
ownership, easements, mortgages, rights and obligations ...
Authority: District courts
Land register
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Wernher Hoffmann

12. parcel subdivision & unification process
Requester’s business process aided by surveyors, notaries and lawyers
request + subdivision map + certificate + authorizations
ERV
land registry decision + updated land register
request + subdivision map on paper
updated cadastre
web application for submitting requests & documents
subdivision map certificate
Cadastral Office
Land registry office
Cadastral Office
subdivision map examination + certification + pre-execution in cadastre + subdivision table
subdivision map examination and certification
disrupted process between cadastral office and land registry office
BBS/ERV
request examination and decision issuing
partial execution,
paper interface
semi automatic execution in cadastre
manual execution in cadastre
BBS
DKA
eGA
DKA: digital cadastral archive
eGA: e-Geodata Austria portal
Parcel subdivision and unification process
BBS: inter agency database connection
ERV: electronic request/decision application
animated version
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13. Certification process in Cadastre
sell part of my parcel
Certification process in Cadastre
Owner
Electronic Entry Process
BEV-Web-Portal
Cadastral Processing
in Cadastral Office
Login at BEV-Web-Portal
Formal and legal
Check
Preview layer of DKM
„new situation“
registration in LR
condition for
Certification
user data, Check for attachments
Format (PDF/A-1b, text, ZIP)
Electronic timestamp
Electronic Signature
Validation process
VA Wien
Registration
Licensed
surveyor
VA Graz
VA Salzburg
VA Salzburg
VA …
Discussion with all owners
Field survey
Surveying
document
Licensed
surveyor
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14. Registration in Land Register (“Grundbuch”)
Electronic legal transactions
Land Register (Grundbuch)
Cadastral Processing in
Cadastral Office
Owner
publicly available
Information
Preview layer to
Cadastre
Update of
(legal) DKM
Formal and legal
Check
Decision
Land Register
(Grundbuch)
Update of
System Message
to BEV (KFS)
Login at Land Registry Portal
Notary
Lawyer
Web - portal
Preparing all documents, certifications, etc.
Contract
Owner
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Wernher Hoffmann

15. Improvements on the maintenance side

16. Improvement of Lead Time
Certifications taking longer then 90 days
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Wernher Hoffmann

17. Improvement of Lead Time
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18. Improvements on the dissemination side

19. e-Geodata Austria User Interface driven dissemination
“Ready-made” products without GIS-Enquiry
BEV Shop Light
BEV Shop
BEV Shop Plus
myBEV Recherche
BEV Shop APOS
BEV WebGIS
GIS-Enquiry (service for citizens)
Service for professionals / experts
Individual configuration
Data for GPS-post processing and availability planning
Online GIS for power users
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20. e-Geodata Austria User Interface driven dissemination
Recherché
text
graphic
Product Selection
Categories
E.g. maps 1:50.000
Products e.g. ÖK 50 BMN
Search Result
List of available products and prices
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21. Product Web Service – INSPIRE compliant
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22. PWS-Integration in Third Party Clients
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23. PWS Service Acceptance
service users constantly grows
product orders tripled in the past years
Delivery with PWS
15% of address data
79% of cadastral data
33% of geographic reference data
14% of remote sensing data
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24. Web Service Systemintegration
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25. Increase of Clients in the BEV-portal (eGA)
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26. Development of Data Deliveries
artificial kink:
Minimal levy amounts
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27. Adding new information to the System

28. Digitizing the cadastral archives28

29. Digitizing the cadastral archives
More than 4 Million deeds
QR-Code Classification
Different formats, different quality
2000 deeds per day
3 archives are digital available now
Duration of the project 10 years 29

30. Thank you for your attention !
Steady improvement is “fit for use”!
Thank you for your attention !
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