TS 34 – Technological Aspects of Land Administration Systems

Cadastre systems which are a subset of spatial information systems, aim at identifying and maintaining legal boundaries of properties, also provide information related to nature, size, and ownership of land use and elements. The fundamental structure for collecting, storing, and retrieving information in cadastre systems is the cadastral parcel. It will not be possible to design a global cadastral system suitable for any case and all circumstances. This is true specially when considering the socio-economic basic conditions, which are different from country to country. The different forms of land tenure and the legal situation in this field give the framework for cadastral systems, and how to carry out its technical features. The present form of cadastral system in Egypt, usually suffers some deficiencies such as the limiting capabilities for providing data, database updating; the very slow rate, with a lot of routine in carrying out the cadastral functions, tasks, and their costs. So, considerable time is needed in order to access, locate, retrieve and update the information that stored in traditional forms of cadastre system database, as well as, the data-updating process is so difficult. In addition, like most developing countries, the growth of population, and the rapid developments within society are increasing the demand on urban and rural land, an