The 3D Cadastre Prototype and Pilot in the Russian Federation

This paper presents the developed prototype and the planned pilot of the on-going project on 3D cadastre modelling in the Russian Federation. The aim of this project is to provide guidance in the development of 3D Cadastral registration and to create favourable legal and institutional conditions for the introduction of a 3D cadastre. The Russian Federation has a strong drive towards a 3D cadastre for better registration of complex buildings, or other types of constructions, and subsurface networks (e.g., cables and pipelines). After the recent completion of the design of a 3D Cadastral model, the project is currently in the phase of testing this design via a pilot based on the developed prototype system. The test data, including selected 3D cases, is from Nizhny Novgorod (about 400 km east of Moscow), which has been selected as pilot region in this project. The selected 3D cases are representative 3D cadastral objects related to buildings (units) and pipelines. The initial prototype focuses on the presentation of 3D information of cadastral objects. Therefore a web browser based solution has been developed, in which the 3D visualization and interaction is implemented with the BS Contact plug-in from Bitmanagement (www.bitmanagement.com). This includes functionality to: display and interact with the various pilot objects in 3D (rotate