News

Mapping solar potential to support Dutch network operators.

Kadaster strives to create and share knowledge, based on our mapping and land administration experiences in the Netherlands. We recently published two special issues of scientific journals.

Kadaster has always contributed substantially to the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM). This cooperation is now further intensified with a virtual secondment.

Kadaster and StateGeoCadastre Ukraine signed a Memorandum of Understanding on institutional cooperation on National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI).

Part of the universal declaration is the right to property, therefore it also affects our field of land registration. Why is this right so importantant? And how does it affect our land registration profession?

A significant milestone has been achieved for land administration, land administration professionals and the many people experiencing land tenure insecurity. The Framework for Effective Land Administration has been adopted by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management.

First of January 2021, the cadastre and land registries on Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (BES islands) will become part of Kadaster.

FIG Working Week 2021 the Netherlands welcomes you! Save the date Juni 21-25, 2021.

Land-at-Scale is the follow up project for LAND which was finalised early 2020. This new programme has a focus on scaling-up land sector initiatives and networks.

On August 10, 20 land titles were awarded to residents of the Colombian municipality of Cumaribo, in a remote region hard hit by the armed conflict. More land titles will follow soon.

An important agreement will be signed today 28th of April in Colombia: a Memorandum of Understanding between the Colombian rural cadaster (IGAC: Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi), the Dutch embassy in Bogotá and Netherlands’ Kadaster. The signing will contribute to the development of a rapid, transparent and multipurpose cadaster in Colombia.

Members of Kadaster International wrote an interesting article

Read more about the impact of the COVID-19 virus on our work.

Kadaster (International) released its newest report on March 30th, a guide titled ‘Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration for All’ written by Dr. Eva-Maria Unger and Dr. Rohan Bennett. This report shows the importance of fostering strategic partnerships amongst all land sector stakeholders - government, private sector, NGOs, and academia - when undertaking FFPLA.

Sunday 8 March is International Women’s Day. Eva-Maria Unger is geodetic engineer and works for Kadaster International on women’s land rights. “I see it as an opportunity and privilege to be a woman’s voice to the land administration domain and hence in the recognition and documentation of land rights for women.”

At the meeting for new mayors and governors in Colombia the Kadaster International team presented the Land in Peace project and introduced the Fit-for-Purpose approach.

Armenia is moving towards a more transparent, secure, unified and citizen-oriented cadastral system. To achieve this, digitising cadastral archives is essential.

Since 2017, Kadaster has been supporting its colleagues in the Western Balkan region. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs approved the proposal to continue with the SPATIAL project in the Balkan region in the coming 3 years.

The Curaçao cadastre is planning a renewal of cadastral legislation by merging and updating existing legislation into a single Cadastre Act.

The 8th Workshop on the Land Administration Domain, LADM2019, recently took place in Malaysia. The focus was on the development of Edition II of the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM).