CADASTRE 2034 – POWERING
LAND AND REAL PROPERTY
A national strategy for cadastral reform and innovation
brought to you by ICSM’s Permanent Committee on Cadastre (PCC)
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INTRODUCTION
1. Overview of ICSM and PCC
2. Setting the scene: technology and all that jazz
3. What / who is a surveyor?
4. Cadastre 2034: how ambitious is that?
5. Aspects of surveyors’ education (Fryer Mitchell Report)
6. Lunch
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ICSM
Seven permanent sub-committees:
• Permanent Committee on Addressing (PCA)
• Permanent Committee on Cadastre (PCC)
• Permanent Committee on Geodesy (PCG)
• Permanent Committee on Topographical Information (PCTI)
• Permanent Committee on Geographical Names in Australasia
(CGNA)
• Permanent Committee on Tides and Mean Sea Level (PCTMSL)
• Data Framework Technical Sub-Committee (DFTSC)
Additional working groups
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PCC
(AKA THE HANDSOME LOT)
Not many
females in
this august
company…
… could that be
one of our
problems?
Hold that
thought …
Australian State and Territory Surveyors General and Chief Surveyors, NZ Surveyor General
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A VISION FOR
CADASTRE 2034
“A cadastral system that
enables people to readily
and confidently identify the
location and extent of all
rights, restrictions and
responsibilities related to
land and real property.”
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EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
ICSM Chair asks:
• Do you agree with our view?
• Do you support the enduring principles
we espouse?
• Are we moving in the right direction?
• Do our goals and objectives reflect your
own aspirations?
• What can you contribute?
• Do we have your support?
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CADASTRE 2034 FRAMEWORK
VISION
Recognises that knowledge about
land is essential for wise decision
making in a modern society and
that this information must endure
ENDURING PRINCIPLES
A set of enduring principles to
preserve the essential components
of the cadastre
CADASTRE
The fundamental record of land
parcels that supports tenure,
ownership and land use
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GOALS
Define how we design, organise,
access, operate and leverage the
future cadastre
CADASTRE 2034 FRAMEWORK
ACTIONS AND INNOVATIONS
Are benchmarked against the
enduring principles to ensure
essential components of the
cadastre persist
OUTCOMES
The required outcomes guide the
governance, policy development,
standards, research programs and
the design of future systems
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SETTING THE (SPATIAL) SCENE
What kind of world do we live in?
• Very connected
• Mobile
• Data hungry
• Time poor (I want it now)
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TOP 10 EXISTING AND EMERGING DISRUPTIONS
BROUGHT ON BY ADVANCING GEOSPATIAL
TECHNOLOGY
1. Navigation
From its early commercial adoption in the sailing community to ubiquitous access on our smartphones,
the advent of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) has had a huge impact on the efficiency of
travel. In a short time, we’ve gone from needing to purchase and decipher printed maps – and to often
ask for directions from locals – to having our devices guide us along our way.
2. Real-time Location
The use of real-time location for delivering advertising information has been a long-explored area that is
just coming into its own with hyperlocal marketing. We can expect more apps and services taking
advantage of connecting us to what we want and trading upon our actions associated with our location.
3. Monitoring
While GPS guides us, it also creates a record of where we’ve been or can report our current location.
The ability to monitor moving assets – such as fleet management – has had impressive impacts on the
trucking industry and other fleet operators for improved dispatch and fuel efficiency across the fleet.
The ability to monitor is also making its way into the consumer’s vehicle with such approaches as usebased insurance — where you’re charged for the miles actually travelled.
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TOP 10 EXISTING AND EMERGING DISRUPTIONS
BROUGHT ON BY ADVANCING GEOSPATIAL
TECHNOLOGY
4. Virtual Tours
With much of the world recently mapped from satellite images and street-view cameras, there are an
increasing number of applications and services that trade on this virtual reality capture to guide us to
things that we’re after. Beyond just an accurate and updated map are those that build data and services
on top of that data, such as the real estate information provider Zillow with its property listing details and
connections to realtors. This mapping platform, and the ability to preview properties, has had a dramatic
impact on how we search for homes. With greater precision and more frequent updates made possible by
expanding sensor networks, we can expect more tours for different pursuits as well as new tour and
discovery oriented services.
5. Surveying
No geospatial segment has been as disrupted by technology advancements as has the surveying
industry. Surveyors have tools that greatly speed and ease their collection methods, and yet the
increasing ease of use and access has eroded some of their traditional business. The area of machine
control has been the most disruptive with a detailed model of the landscape, coupled with precise GPS on
earth movers eliminating the need for staking of new development. The laser technologies of LiDAR have
been disruptive as well, because detailed scans eliminate the need for repeat visits to capture different
elements of existing infrastructure. Drones may mark the end of surveying as we know it, with
autonomous mapping at great accuracy and resolution. (Their words not mine!)
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TOP 10 EXISTING AND EMERGING DISRUPTIONS
BROUGHT ON BY ADVANCING GEOSPATIAL
TECHNOLOGY
6. Field Data Connections
The asset management market where GIS has most users has been gradually eroding the distinction
between what can be accessed in the office versus what we can take to the field …
7. Free and Open Data
The growing move to make geospatial data free and openly available online is a disruption that greatly
increases government transparency. While it’s an enabler … it’s also a disruptor for companies that have
traded upon the difficulty of gathering and aggregating this data.
8. Precision Prescriptions
Mapping existing conditions and prescribing plans to improve upon them is a recurring pattern that exists
in urban planning, business trade areas, precision agriculture and elsewhere. This capacity trades on
spatial analysis…. As data availability increases, our ability to prescribe and forecast improves …
9. Wearable Computers
The ability for heads-up display of data is fueled largely by the desire to visualise geospatial technology,
delivering details in context of existing reality. This is a game changer for a wide number of industries.
10. Advantage Earth
With increasing sensors taking a look at our planet, we're gaining an increasing understanding of Earth
systems, and there will be no place for bad environmental actors to hide …
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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM 2014
The Issue
Digital technology is transforming every
aspect of life at breakneck speed. Half
a billion smartphone users today will
increase to 4-5 billion in six months.
Customer demand for more bandwidth
is exploding daily. The integration of
cloud, mobile and sensor-driven
technologies is rapidly creating a more
direct and personalised relationship
between customer and vendor. And
this is just the beginning. From “a new
digital context, a new ideas context” is
emerging, and 2014 will be “the year of
the crossover.” We stand at the
threshold of a revolution that will
transform business models, redefine
the legal environment and lead to the
evolution of social norms.
… says John T. Chambers
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco, USA
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New data access frameworks provide opportunities
for new punters and seasoned users to dramatically
increase the use of spatial information
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So …
• Where are the surveyors and what are we
doing?
• What and who is a surveyor?
Traverse issue 293, just released
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG)
Definition … pretty long
Surveying Task Force
Definition and sales pitch to a younger
audience … good stuff
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
Other definitions …
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American Congress on Surveying and
Mapping (ACSM)
Quite well-aligned with the FIG definition and a
good precis of various aspects of surveying, but
still ANOTHER definition
Wikipedia
A good definition of surveying for the
everyman (Glenn’s words), but still ANOTHER
definition…
Institution of Surveyors Victoria (ISV)
Article 20: Qualifications for Membership
a)
b)
c)
d) e) f) g) …
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Glenn Collins’ comments and conclusion
“Well this is disappointing. We are all about
membership qualifications and not much else.
In fact, in the context of the preceding contemporary
definitions, the membership qualifications of the
Institution of Surveyors are restrictive and
misaligned with current expectations and
professional options.”
Glenn continues
“If the Institution is to grow its membership then it
must become more inclusive. By any accepted
definition of a Surveyor, the cadastral practitioner is
a subset of the whole.
Surveyors should strive to “fill the space between
science and art” and it is time for the Institute to
contemplate its place in the market. Do we want to
remain a subset of the whole or broaden our
horizons to become the whole?”
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1903
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WHO DID SURVEYORS THINK THEY WERE IN 1903?
Surveyor, n 3. One who surveys or
measures land; one who practices the art of
surveying.
Surveying, That branch of applied
mathematics which teaches the art of
determining the area of any portion of the
earth’s surface, the lengths and directions of
the bounding lines, the contour of the surface,
with an accurate delineation of the whole on
paper; the art or occupation of making
surveys.
Noah Webster
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Webster’s International Dictionary, 1903
WHO DID SURVEYORS THINK THEY WERE IN 1956?
Address by Retiring President
“… the other rule that seems to be broken so often is, of
course, relative to the observance of the scale of fees
adopted or approved by the Institution. … If we all openly
competed for the work at lower rates where would we all
finish? Obviously, by working for an inadequate reward,
but worse still, by doing bad work, and I regret to state that
quite a lot of the work being done today leaves a lot to be
desired, partly, I feel, for that reason.”
“All the foregoing points are but some of the troubles which
beset the profession, and have done for many years.”
“There are also proposed amendments to the Surveyors’ Act…
which, if introduced, could help very considerably with our
problems.”
The Australian Surveyor, March 1956
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WHO DID SURVEYORS THINK THEY WERE IN 1956?
“However no amount of Regulations or alteration to Acts of
Parliament can really offset the effects of moral and intellectual
apathy. The status of any profession must in the long run rest
on the moral integrity of the vast majority of its members. No
profession is without its black sheep.’ (!)
The Australian Surveyor, March 1956
“…It may be argued that the ordinary professional man is rather
removed from the propositions of modern science in his daily
work, and is unable to make any contribution himself. This, of
course, can be easily refuted. There is an obligation on every
member of a profession to extend his knowledge, and that of
others, by intelligent reading, writing and advanced study.”
The clincher ... “Science has thrown down the challenge.
Let us respond boldly as our fathers did when they thrust out
into the vast, unknown land. There is no room for complacency
in this age (!)
The Australian Surveyor, September 1956
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SO WHY ALL THIS HISTORY?
• We have spent way too much time over the last 60 years (or more) looking
inwards – at ourselves
• We have to reverse that tendency
• Our biggest challenges are NOT technological – we do technology well
OUR BIGGEST CHALLENGE is our lack
of organisational cohesion: we are still
fractured and do not yet speak with one
voice to decision-makers
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DESPITE ALL THIS
• Surveyors – particularly cadastral surveyors – are a
unique bunch with unique (if little understood) skills
• We straddle the divide between geodesy and the
cadastre
• That divide is called the Common Law
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FRYER MITCHELL REPORT
Prepared for CRSBANZ
• Interesting observations on the
unique place of the surveyor
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SO BACK TO CADASTRE 2034
This documents seeks to establish the primacy of the cadastre in
Australia and New Zealand.
It is important to note that we don’t have a broken cadastre – in fact
many other countries envy what we have.
It is simply that the unprecedented convergence of technology and
community mobility is going to demand new requirements of the
cadastre.
So, given all the challenges that have been outlined . . .
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ARE WE UP FOR IT ????
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