Development of an Advanced Cadastral Management System at the Survey of Israel (original) (raw)

SUMMARY The Survey of Israel is a national agency for geodesy, cadastre and geographic information. The Survey is responsible for cadastral mapping, as a partner of other ministries cooperating in documentation and registration of rights to land, according to a British law dating back to the period of the British Mandate (Survey Ordnance, 1929). Private licensed surveyors are deeply involved in the cadastral activity. The cadastre system in Israel is based on the British initiated Torrens registration principles. The responsibility for the inspection and the approval of cadastral block maps and mutation plans is shared by five district surveyors and a number of senior civil servants acting at SOI central office. This historical, geographic distribution led to heterogeneity of various local standards, working and management methods and procedures, data formats, hardware and software facilities, etc. In the era of worldwide standardization, the Israeli cadastre practice remained anach...