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 land value (e.g. quality, economic value, tax value, value of
improvements).
Other information can also be connected to land parcels through
the unique parcel identifiers and through cadastral index maps. Such

information may be of importance to specific user groups and
includes:

 buildings and other improvements;
 agricultural data (land capability classifications, land use);
 forestry data;

 utilities (e.g. water, electricity, communications);
 fisheries (noting individuals holding rights in inland and coastal

waters);
 environmental quality (particularly for site-specific analysis
and monitoring);

 demography (population statistics, consumer marketing data,
etc.).

Traditionally Cadaster was designed to assist in land taxation, real
estate conveyancing, and land redistribution. Cadaster helps to provide
those involved in land transactions with relevant information and
helps to improve the efficiency of those transactions and security of

tenure in general. It provides governments at all levels with complete
inventories of land holdings for taxation and regulation. But today, the
information is also increasingly used by both private and public

sectors in land development, urban and rural planning, land
management, and environmental monitoring.
Cadaster plays an important role in the regulation of land use.
Land use regulations stipulate conditions for the initial establishment

of a parcel (e.g. subdivision or amalgamation); the use to which the
land will be put; parcel size; and the necessary access to water and
sewerage, roads, etc. In land development, the Cadaster forms an

essential part of the information required by the private developer,
land owners, and the public authorities to ensure that benefits are
maximised and costs (economic, social, and environmental) are
minimised.

Land registration and cadastre usually complement each other,
they operate as interactive systems. Land registration puts in principle
the accent on the relation subject-right, whereas cadastre puts the

accent on the relation on right-object. In other words: the land

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