The short-term needs in privatization of land and the long-term needs in actualized data for the Municipality of Budapest can only be satisfied by the construction of a Land Information System (LIS), as a basic service for land registration as well as for many other uses in all political, economical or social domains.

Background

After the DLM had submitted a proposal for financial assistance and another proposal for technical assistance and training to the Swiss Government in 1993, the Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs (FOFEA) approved a project for financial assistance and services for the establishment of a digital cadastral map management system in Budapest and know-how transfer of experience with the Swiss Reform of the Cadastral Survey.
In order to provide the necessary technical assistance to help implementing this project and to coordinate the know-how transfer program, ITV AG was chosen as a consultant.

Objectives

The objective of the Swiss project is to assist the Hungarian authorities in the setting up an LIS in Budapest and in their "Reform of the Cadastral Survey" as part of the National Cadastral Programme.
This goal will be achieved by supplying technical equipment, project management and consulting services to the Hungarian authorities accompanied by a know-how transfer program which provides for an exchange of experience from the Swiss Reform of the cadastral survey.

LIS Budapest
The provision of equipment serves to improve the efficiency and quality of the services of the Budapest Land Offices (CLO and DLO). in the Budapest Land Office. The following land information management processes have been identified which need improvement:

• Land information management triggered by applications submitted from citizens to the DLO. This process will be harmonized with the PHARE project which furnishes the Budapest land office (DLO) with computer hard- and software for property registration (application and property sheet management "Grundbuch").
• Map revision: This is the process of maintaining the quality of the LIS and it is initiated by the CLO. The complete data flow from field surveying to the database will be streamlined.
• Supply of data to external and internal users in digital and analog form.
• Control point management: Solutions for the reconstruction, preservation and management of the control points of the CLO will be addressed in the context of this project.
• Data Conversion: Although this is not a production process but rather a task of the implementation of the system, Since data conversion in a LIS project is a major task in complexity, time and amount of data to be processed, it will be treated as a major process of the system.

• Standards, methods and data exchange in the cadastre surveying and data management
• Political and administrative organization of the cadastre, legal aspects
• Financing the cadastre
• Data capture and surveying technology
• GIS Applications, use of cadastral maps in other GIS
• Professional Education

• County Land Offices (Managers, head of surveying department)
• Budapest Capitol and District Land Office
• Ministry of Agriculture
• FÖMI

Assisted by ITV AG, a project team with members from the DLM, CLO and DLO will implement a pilot system in the Budapest District Land Office.
The following plan has been set up for the project:

• Define the necessary standards:
  • Data quality
  • Methods
• Establish detailed requirements covering the following domains:
  • Organization
  • Finance
  • Technique
  • Procedures
• Evaluation, procurement and installation of the necessary LIS hard and software and field survey equipment for pilot projects in two districts
• Organize and control the data conversion process (The data conversion is done by the land office)
• Set up and test the necessary procedures, hard and software for updating the cadastral map data with the LIS
• Put the system into production in the two pilot districts (V and XI)
• Establish a plan for the introduction of this system in all of the districts in Budapest and a strategy for an efficient data conversion and update procedure of the cadastral map information (boundaries, buildings etc.).

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