IT Renewal Strategy
for Land Registry
and Cadastre in Europe
Dr.-Ing. Winfried Hawerk
Germany
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Current Situation
 IT was introduced in cadastre about 30
years ago
 Geodetic Calculation programs > 1960
 Textual records > 1970
 Mapping systems > 1990
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Where is the problem ?
 Individual
developments
 No standards
 Fragmented
software solutions
 Maintenance
difficult
 Systems are too
costly
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New technical requirements
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Need for renewal
 Integration of register and maps for a
better work flow
 ISO and OGC standards
 New business strategies in the
organisations
 Cadastre is a basic element of NSDI
 Internet, e-land administration
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General strategies
 Step by step
 big bang
 re-engineering within the existing
infrastructure
 conversion of existing mainframe
solutions into a client-server
architecture
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Step by step in the Netherlands
 General information
 Roman and French system
 Notary Public plays important role
 Land registers and cadastre in the hand of
Kadaster
 1,000,000 transactions per year
 cadastral registers and maps different
systems, parts more than 20 years old
 maintenance costs = 6 * modern systems
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Step by step in the Netherlands
 Renewal strategy was developed over 6
years = road map
 find a balance between user demands
for new functionality, availability and
continuity and the demands on cost
management and manageability
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Step by step in the Netherlands
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Step by step in the Netherlands
 Renewal of the core system
 new system built up in parts in a new
environment while the old system is still
running
 10 years synchronising both systems
 periodical evaluation of the process
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Big bang in Finland
 Cadastre run by NLS and
86 municipalities
 Land register run by
district courts
 1970s textual cadastral
data
 1984 Central data system
LIS
 1990s cadastral index map
 1990s Land register
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Big bang in Finland
 Development of JAKO
started in early 90s
 integration of separated
systems
 design carried out until
1995
 implementation 1998
 JAKO as part of LIS
 LIS is part of NSDI
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Big bang in Finland
 Functional improvement of data base
maintenance
 one seamless VMDS
 improvement of information service
 in operation since 5 years
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ALKIS® Big bangs in Germany
real world
paper
Captured data
acquisition
Maintenance data
qualification
ALKIS-ATKIS-data
operation
ALKIS-ATKIS-output data
application
ALKIS-ATKIS-transfer data
data
Transfer data
transmission
processes
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ALKIS®
ATKIS®
world
GIS
transmission
ALKIS® Migration process
ATKIS (old)
ALK
EDBS
ALB
WLDG
users
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ALKIS® Migration process
ATKIS (old)
ALK
EDBS
ALKIS-ATKIS-DB
ALB
WLDG
interface
A
NAS
interface
B
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users
ALKIS® Migration process
users
ALKIS-ATKIS-DB
NAS
EDBS
WLDG
interface
C
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Recommendations
 Step by step approach
 Complex and time consuming
 Parallel data maintenance for long time
 Customers have time to convert their
systems
 Employees‘ skills can be developed and
experiences may influence new
components
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Recommendations
 Big bang approach
 Easier to implement
 Long development and test phase
 Short migration period
 Customers have to be involved
 Education program parallel to normal
work process
 New work flow needs new skills
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Conclusion
 Strategy has to fit in the situation in
each individual country
 All strategies have strengths and
weaknesses
 No cookbook, just good practice
guidelines
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