FIG Commission 7 (Cadastre and Land Management) Annual
Meeting and International Open Symposium on "Digital Cadastral Map"
5-11 September 2010, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
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Chair of Commission 7
András Osskó together with incoming
Chair
Daniel Roberge |
FIG Commission 7 in cooperation with the Czech Union of Surveyors and
Cartographers organized its Annual Meeting between 5 and 11 September 2010
in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. Commission 7 has had a 20 year tradition
organizing annual meetings each year, separately from major FIG events,
based on the consensus of Commission 7 delegates. The Annual Meeting 2010
was the last of a four year period chaired by Mr.
András Osskó, Hungary.
Commission 7 established its concept of activities about 15 years ago in
line with the FIG long term professional strategy and selected topics to
deal with: advanced cadastre, developing sustainable land administration,
application of innovations creating secure land tenure and advanced
technology in land administration. Following the tradition, Commission 7
Work Plan 2007-2010 helped to achieve FIG goals like working cooperation
with other FIG commissions, working relation with UN organizations, World
Bank and other professional organizations, organizing joint conferences,
events, workshops, to contribute formulating the professional program for
FIG congresses, working weeks supporting regional events to promote FIG
activities in general and especially the new priorities of the land surveyor
profession.
There are many fields of interest for Commission 7 related to land
administration, cadastre and land management matters. To achieve realistic
results in the 2007-2010 period, Commission 7 had to prioritise the most
important issues based on the Commission 7 activities having carried on
during the past years, recent developments, challenges and priorities
supported by UN and other professional organizations, NGOs.
Selected important issues among others: pro poor land management and land
administration, sustainable land administration supporting good governance,
land administration in post conflict areas, public and state land
management, innovative technology and ICT support in land administration and
land management.
There was a record number of participation in the Annual Meeting 2010
showing the importance of land administration matters world wide. 57
delegates attended this annual meeting from 32 countries representing all of
the continents. We could welcome delegates from Japan, Eritrea and Cyprus,
also a representative from the Organization of American States who never
attended before. We were happy to meet again former Commission 7 chairs:
Prof. Ian Williamson from Australia and Prof. Andzrej Hopfer
from Poland after many years.
The program of the 5 days Annual Meeting followed the tradition of the
Commission 7 annual meetings: 3 days workshop with technical sessions, one
day international open symposium and one day technical tour, sightseeing
with social program.
The meeting started with the introduction of the host country. Czech
colleagues gave 8 presentations describing the land administration, cadastre
activities in the Czech Republic, land surveying and cadastre education at
Universities, private surveyors’ role in cadastre and other matters. The
Czech introduction was followed by reports on FIG and Commission 7
activities during the last year. Mr. András Osskó gave a report on the FIG
Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, which was a great professional success.
Commission 7 was the major contributor with more than 150 presentations, 20%
of the total number of presented papers.
Mr. Daniel Roberge (Canada), chair elect Commission 7 for the 2011-2014
period introduced the draft Commission 7 Work Plan 2011-2014 for further
discussion. The draft should be supported by the commission and final
approval will be made by FIG Council and General Assembly. Mr. Daniel
Steudler, Switzerland gave a report on FIG Task Force Spatially Enabled
Society.
FIG achieves its goals through 10 permanent commissions’ activities;
commissions complete their work plan through commission working groups’
activities, which play a very important role in the achievements of
commissions’ plan.
The success of Commission 7 is also very much depended on the working
group achievements. Working group chairs reported on their works and results
of the past four year period.
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Chair of Commission 7
Andras Ossko |
President
Stig Enemark |
Incoming President
CheeHai Teo |
Mr. Christiaan Lemmen (The Netherlands), chair working group 1 “Development
on Pro Poor Land Management and Administration” asked Mr. Osskó to
present his paper as himself could not be present this occasion. The
development of Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) and Social Tenure
Domain Model (STDM) were great success, thanks to Mr. Lemmen and his
colleagues for this. STDM supports the development of pro poor land
management approaches, and contains new definitions including customary and
informal tenures. This is a development under ISO (ISO 19152 Standard
Proposal). The procedure is going on. UN-Habitat very much supports the
development of STDM - there was a joint special session on it in the FIG
Congress in Sydney.
Mr. Søren Fauerholm Christensen, Denmark, chair working group 2. “Development
Sustainable Land Administration to Support Sustainable Development” gave
a presentation on their activities. Working group 2 organized a very
successful workshop on “Land administration for sustainable development”
during the Geoconference in October 2-5, 2007 in Quebec, Canada, supported
by UN organizations and World Bank. Working group 2 contributed to the work
of many joint FIG/ UN events.
Mr. Daniel Steudler, Switzerland, chair working group 3 “Application
of Innovative Technology in Land Administration” introduced the
activities performed. The working group mainly focused on open source
software applications in cadastre and land registry. Working group 3 and
UN/FAO have been running a joint project on “FLOSS Cadastre” since
2007. As a result of their activities, Commission 7 organized a technical
session during the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney with the contribution of Mr.
Daniel Steudler, Mr. Christiaan Lemmen, Mr. Markus Seifert (Germany)
and others. FIG and UN/FAO also issued a publication on this topic based on
the joint Commission 7 and UN/FAO activities.
Representatives of big IT companies have been regular participants in
Commission 7 annual meetings since years presenting papers. This year, Mr.
Matty Lakerveld, Bentley Systems Inc. gave a very interesting
presentation on “Ubiquitous and 3D future of Cadastre”. Mr. Keith
Hofgartner, Trimble gave us an overview about new applications of GPS in
Cadastre.
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András Osskó and Ian Williamson with the newly
published book: Land Administration for Sustainable Development |
A very important book “Land Administration for Sustainable
Development” was published at the beginning of 2010 and was
officially introduced during the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney. At
the end of the first day Prof. Ian Williamson, one of the
co-authors gave a review about the book to Commission 7 delegates.
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In FIG professional strategy, the active working relation with UN, World
Bank and other professional organizations is one of the most important
goals. Commission 7 organized and contributed to many joint events, among
others, a joint FIG/FAO International Seminar on “State and Public Land
Management” in 2008 September in Verona, Italy just before the Annual
Meeting 2008.
Following the seminar, the commission continued working on this topic,
which is equally important in developed and developing countries, issuing a
questionnaire to commission 7 delegates, prepared by Mr. Richard Grover
(UK) and Mr. Elikkos Elia (Cyprus) who also coordinated activities.
Mr. Grover gave a comprehensive report on the result of the evaluation of
completed questionnaires.
Country reports on new developments in land administration and cadastre
world wide have always been one of the most interesting parts of the annual
meetings. National delegates gave these reports informing participants about
new developments; we could learn again from each other. In Karlovy Vary, we
heard 21 country reports from all over the world.
One Day International Open Symposium on “Digital Cadastral Map”
The Symposium has been an essential part of the Commission 7 annual
meetings since long. The selected topic is always chosen by the host
association in a way that it is equally important both for the host country
land surveyors and Commission 7 members. The symposium is open to the host
and neighbouring countries’ professionals. Apart from Commission 7
delegates, about 200 land surveyors from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
and Poland attended the event.
FIG President Prof. Stig Enemark gave the keynote paper “The
Evolving Role of Cadastral systems in Support of Good Land Governance”.
The introduction of digital cadastral maps is an issue in every countries
world wide, concerning accuracy, content and consistency with legal data,
etc. We listened to presentations from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany,
Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, and Hong Kong.
Social Events
Organizing Commission 7 annual meetings is always a hard work, but also a
fun. Delegates visited the Karlovy Vary Cadastre Office combined with
sightseeing, walking across the picturesque Karlovy Vary and its
environment. At the end of the day, there was the Commission 7 dinner, which
has been always the peak of social events. This time, the dinner was held in
the old castle of the nearby scenic old town Loket. Thanks to the excellent
local organizers, Commission 7 delegates enjoyed not only the food and
drink, but also the historic atmosphere and the cultural program with
medieval live music during the dinner.
Summary
The Annual Meeting 2010 held in Karlovy Vary was the last of the four
year period. This was the last opportunity for delegates to discuss about
the Commission 7 work plan 2011-2014, introduced by Mr. Daniel Roberge.
Delegates supported the draft Work Plan, but the final approval will be made
by FIG Council and General Assembly.
Delegates voted for the venue of the next Commission 7 Annual meeting in
2011. The meeting will be in Innsbruck, Austria, September 2011.
Mr. András Osskó, chair Commission 7 closed the Annual meeting. At the
end of his four year term he summarized the work of the commission.
Commission 7 continued its tradition and finished a successful four years
period achieving its goals based on the Commission 7 work plan 2007-2010.
The commission has been the major contributor to FIG congresses, working
weeks, conferences. He expressed his thanks to Commission 7 delegates and
friends for their activity. The annual meeting in Karlovy Vary was a great
success as a professional event. Participants also enjoyed the historic,
beautiful Karlovy Vary and Czech hospitality.
Many thanks to the local organizers, Czech Union of Surveyors and
Cartographers for the invitation and all arrangements, also Bentley Systems
Inc. as sponsor. Commission 7 delegates and friends are looking forward to
meet again in the next Annual meeting in Innsbruck, Austria, 2011.
PPT presentations will be available on the FIG Commission 7 website soon.
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Participants of the symposium |
15 October 2010
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