The Enhanced Information System of the Cadastre of Real Estates of the
Czech Republic
by Vit Suchanek and Josef Jirman
Key words: Cadastre, information system, database.
Abstract
1. Introduction
The Enhanced Information System of the Cadastre of Real Estates of
the Czech Republic („Enhanced Cadastre") is currently the key
development project of the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and
Cadastre („COSMC"). Enhanced Cadastre represents the effort of
the COSMC to prepare the cadastral environment in the Czech Republic
for the next millennium and for commencing mass utilisation of
information and telecommunication technologies not only in carrying
out tasks of the public administration, but mainly in the daily life
of the whole society.
2. Background of Enhanced Cadastre
There has been a huge increase in demands for cadastral services
since 1989, ensuing mostly from privatisation and restitution
processes and from a rebirth of the market economy in the Czech
Republic. The Czech Government in 1993 approved a long-term strategy
of the restoration of the Cadastre of Real Estates of the Czech
Republic ("Czech Cadastre"). Key elements of this strategy
have been the procurement of a basic IT equipment for all Cadastral
Offices (1992-4), the completion of a data conversion of written part
of Czech Cadastre (1994-8), the Enhanced Cadastre Project (1997-2000)
and digitising of cadastral maps (1994-2006). As the backlog of cases
at Cadastral Offices was huge at the beginning of nineties, it was
decided to implement quickly a rather simple information system in
years 1992-4 and to postpone the principal solution till the Enhanced
Cadastre Project.
3. Reasons for Enhanced Cadastre
Main reasons for the development of the Enhanced Cadastre can be
summarised as follows: to remove all shortcomings of the current
system, to provide improved, efficient and permanent tools for state
administration of the Czech Cadastre and above all, to facilitate the
obtaining of cadastral information – clients will be able to get the
data of the Czech cadastre via remote access, via Internet.
4. Principal Feature of Enhanced Cadastre
A client/server architecture has been chosen. There will be
application and data base servers at all cadastral offices connected
by WAN to central database. Updating of central database will be based
on real-time replications from local databases. Central database will
serve as the only point of a dissemination of cadastral information
via Internet and as the point of the data exchange with the other
ministries. Written and graphical data of Cadastre will be fully
integrated and stored in relational data base environment, this
solution will enable to store also the graphical data centrally and to
disseminate them via Internet. Both central and local levels will use
the uniform application software environment, based on Oracle and
Bentley tools. The security of system will be at C2 level with E2
degree of warranty. The full compliance of Enhanced Cadastre data
structure with National Data Standards will be ensured.
5. Course of Enhanced Cadastre Project
Some preparatory works at strategy level started in 1995. There was
an open national tender for the system integration of Enhanced
Cadastre in 1996, the contract with the awarded company was signed in
May 1997 and project started in July 1997. The original time schedule
assumed to put the Enhanced Cadastre in the operational run by the end
of 1999. Some difficulties (quality of application software, delays in
tenders for computers) appeared in spring 1999 and they caused a delay
in the project. The current time schedule foresees the implementation
of Enhanced Cadastre during July – October 2000. A relatively
independent part of the implementation of Enhanced Cadastre is
subproject of migration of data from current system into Enhanced
Cadastre data structure. This very demanding task has been carried out
in several runs in order to correct all possible data inconsistencies
before the "sharp" migration.
6. Questionmarks Ensuing from Enhanced Cadastre Project
Enhanced Cadastre is an attempt to introduce into Czech environment
a new type of cadastral information services, distinctively oriented
towards clients. When implemented, Enhanced Cadastre should bear a
full comparison with similar systems in countries with fully developed
market economy. The COSMC is the top state administration organisation
depending fully on yearly determined state budgets and being liable to
all limitations valid for the state administration (regulated number
of employees, regulated salaries, etc.). Although the Enhance Cadastre
has been supported by the Czech Government (Cabinet Decree of November
1997), it has been extremely difficult to reach the needed level of
funding for separate years. Enhanced Cadastre will bring a possibility
to decrease number of employees at Cadastral Offices, but it will
bring the necessity to increase number of people supporting the
operational run of the Enhanced Cadastre, especially at the central
level. It is questionable if rigid framework of the state
administration can be the best environment for similar information
services. Enhanced Cadastre is one of the impulses that lead the COSMC
to considerations concerning the new role and arrangement of cadastral
services for the New Millennium.
MSc. Vit Suchanek
Department of Informatics
Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre
P.O. Box 21
Pod sidlistem 1800/9
18211 Praha 8 – Kobylisy
CZECH REPUBLIC
E-mail:vit.suchanek@cuzk.cz
Website: http://www.cuzk.cz
MSc. Josef Jirman
Department of Informatics
Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre
P.O. Box 21
Pod sidlistem 1800/9
18211 Praha 8 – Kobylisy
CZECH REPUBLIC
E-mail: josef.jirman@cuzk.cz
Website: http://www.cuzk.cz
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