cadastral

The owner of the land is inscribed in the cadastral books.

Building better quality cadastral data on all of Italy for a client, pretty fun postgis work.

And this has been true since states wrought the cadastral map, last names, the metric system and taxes on us.

I needed to provide the cadastral reference IDs for the renovated building/s, so I opened my tax agency home page -> Cadastral Query and copy-pasted them from it.

Swedish Lantmäteriet (The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority) provides Minecraft maps for the whole country in various resolutions.

The real estate situation happens sometimes, in countries without proper cadastral mapping and central registries.

And worse - not all properties are even registered: there's no complete cadastral survey.

Maybe there's an IPR lockup window, but at some point the cadastral facts of the world are part of the commons to me.

This is only slightly worse than Slovakia's official online Cadastral (property ownership) map, which still requires using Internet Explorer and downloading an ActiveX Plugin.

Land Surveyors are the front line maintainers, interpreters, and, in a sense, the creators/subdividers of the cadastral system responsible for private property.

The modern state enables that fiction by maintaining a central property register backed by a cadastral survey, and a set of courts that enforce the abstract idea of a contract.

The gis database for administrative boundaries in Luxembourg[0] gets updated once a week, because the borders are based on cadastral measurements, which have been constantly updated since the 19th century.

Preferably properly "cadastral", so you can drop a coordinate pin anywhere and look up the owner.

This is related to "cadastral mapping" in real estate law systems.

"Cadastral query" was a by-word for "ponderous bureaucratic mess" and the practical advice was to start filing your taxes at least a couple months in advance.

Catastro doesn't have a clear license, but the spirit is certainly open[0]: "It's worth noting the mass download service of cadastral information, available since 2011, that makes it free for companies and individuals said information, including the possibility of it being reused." Translation mine.