Cadastral

The final chapter talks about the future of land surveying, with challenges ahead such as the possible transition to a coordinate based cadastral system and the necessity of maintaining the survey framework that already exists — plus, of course, the need for new surveyors to continue to enter the profession. ❋ Ewillett (2010)

The Sister-Books and the various documents of practice — cadastral register, rentbooks, and anniversary books — prove this, going beyond the mere copying of texts into the realm of original composition. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In part, the social power of cadastral maps derived from the "scientific" and purportedly ungendered (because disembodied) quality of their construction, for by concealing their human origins and political objectives in the precisely measured straight lines and quantified areas of their pictorial images, these mappings disavowed the possibility of change or resistance. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But cadastral surveys, by carving the land up into unnaturally straight-edged blocks (first on paper and then, where possible, in the soil itself), assigning (or denying) rights to it in terms of commercial ownership, and buttressing the lines on these maps with the power of state-sanctioned law, sought to transform and appropriate not only control over territorial organization but the land itselfand thus the foundation of Africans 'social organization and culture. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Six days later Dutcher wrote again from his New York City office mentioning the red tape being encountered and the considerable amount of information, affidavits, and the cadastral survey he and Robert Williams had already supplied to the GLO. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Of all types of colonizers 'maps, cadastral maps impinged most directly and disruptively on the lives of Africans in Magude; at the same time, they were also the most forcefully opposed form of colonial cartography, especially among communities living farther from the Portuguese government center in Magude town. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Note 49: The cadastral registers recording land concessions in colonial Magude include Registo de Concessões, Compartimentos I-IV, DINAGECA, pp. 20-21, 48-49; and the Livros de Pedidos for Maputo and Gaza provinces, also at DINAGECA. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Pelican Island had a distinctly triangular shape according to J.O. Fries 'July 1902 cadastral survey for the AOU Committee, with each side measuring roughly 700 feet. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What remain of Pretoria is a "cadastral area" registered in the deeds registry as a township, the City of Tshwane Metropolitan said on ❋ Unknown (2007)

Finally, during my second trip to Mozambique, when I was working principally on land issues, I spent a total of about two weeks working in the archives of the provincial and national offices of the Direcção Nacional de Geografia e Cadastre (DINAGECA), where I found a wealth of documentary material related to land concessions and rural land politics during the colonial and postindependence periods (e.g., cadastral registers and maps, technical reports, surveys, correspondence). ❋ Unknown (2005)

Another achievement is the successful completion of a proof-of-concept GIS project to show that spatial data sets from a variety of sources can be integrated dynamically and seamlessly to provide planners with a single view of spatial data on one platform, whether topographical, cadastral, meteorological, agricultural or land ownership data. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Land reform entailed a thorough cadastral survey (1390); all land registers were abolished, and all lands reverted to the state. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Portuguese governor ordered cadastral survey, which counted not land for taxation but irregular occupation of plots abandoned during 1511 uprising; this shows that the sultanate's economic basis depended on sea, not land. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Although technically straightforward, tertiary system layout requires detailed topographic and cadastral (land ownership) data Most errors in layout and cultivator complaints stem from the use of inaccurate or insufficiently detailed contour plans. ❋ Unknown (1995)

A "cadastral survey" is properly, therefore, one which gives such information as the Domesday Book, but the term is sometimes used loosely of the Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom ❋ Various (N/A)

A cadastral survey seems also to have been instituted, and one of the documents relating to it states that a certain ❋ Various (N/A)

In 1870, we find that a little more than one-half of the landed properties in Norway and one-third of the total cadastral area, were included in those two groups. ❋ Various (N/A)

They cover 13.4 per cent. of the total cadastral area, but represent only 1.3 per cent. of the total number of properties; and it is exclusively these that afford, according to Dr. Broch, 'easy circumstances to their possessors, who are not infrequently ship-owners, forest-owners, engaged in the fishery-trade,' &c. ❋ Various (N/A)

About one half of the requisite resources is derived from a tax on the cadastral value of real property; the remaining half is raised by a tax on capital and income. ❋ Various (N/A)