Cadastral data servicesin Estonia

Mr. Priit KuusDepartment of Land Cadastre priit.kuus@maaamet.ee +372 675 0843

Ventspils 2013

Cadastre today

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Land Cadastre Act Adopted on 12 Oct.1994, since then amended 17 times.

Cadastral data shall be accessed by way of reviewing cadastral data and taking extracts therefrom

Every person may access cadastral data and take extracts therefrom

The rates of state fees for taking extracts from cadastral data shall be established by the State Fees Act

Scope of data

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Cadastral parcels (as of September 2013) Over 632 000 cadastral parcels, i.e. 93 % of Estonian land is

registered in the cadastre

Over 603 000 items in the cadastral archive – of them about 2/3 are partially scanned

Objects causing restrictions and zones of restrictions

Over 60 000 km2 of area objects (e.g. protected area, mineral deposit, etc)

Over 140 000 km of line objects (e.g. lines, roads, etc)

Over 120 000 of point objects (e.g. single objects of nature or heritage conservation)

Administrative boundaries

15 County; 226 Municipality; 4695 Settlement area

Estonian Republic

Area: 45 227 km²

Distribution services

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There are several forms to distribute the cadastral data:

Extract a document from Archive

Reviewing a data via map applications in Geoportal

Request data in a Web Map Service

Ordering a vector format data from Geoportal

A data distribution services in Estonian data exchange layer (x-Road)

Download service for public institutions

Issue of documents

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Every person can apply an official document from cadastral archive.

These documents are certified by the seal and signature: A statement of registration of a land unit

A copy of a cadastre plan

A printout of cadastral map

Charges are:

2.55 € per page of a statement of registration

5.11 € per A3-format page of a cadastre plan

15.97 € per square meter of a printout cadastral map

Ordering a vector format data

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An application can be fulfilled in Estonian Land Board’s geoportal.

Data are copied in: ESRI Mapping Software Shape File SHP

MapInfo Table TAB, MAP, ID, DAT

MicroStation DGN

Fee is calculated:

6.39 € in the case of up to 50 cadastral units and an additional 0.06 € per each cadastral unit

7.98 € in the case of more than 50 cadastral units and an additional 0.03 € per each cadastral unit

Average cost 3100 units 100 €

Year 2012:981 requestsUp to 12070€

Provided web map applications

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Estonian Land Board’s Geoportal http://geoportaal.maaamet.ee/eng/

There are several Map Applications The user can choose between four different types of background

maps

Queries by parcel identifier, village name, land register unit number…

Free of charge!

Web Map Services

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Depending of the data, there are couple of URL-s

http://kaart.maaamet.ee/wms/alus? include: Cadastral data

Administrative and Settlement Division

Restrictions

Estonian Basic Map (color and monochrome)

Orthophotos (including NGR photo layer used in forestry)

Soil Map

Corine land cover

Map sheet indexes

http://kaart.maaamet.ee/wms/fotokaart? include several orthophoto issues

http://kaart.maaamet.ee/wms/ajalooline? include historical maps

Free of charge!

Estonian data exchange layer X-Road

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These are X-Road services for public servants and entrepreneurs

List of the services: Cadastral unit query – data flow and browser interface

Cadastral unit changes query – only data flow

Administrative unit query - only data flow

Administrative unit changes query - only data flow;

Cadastral unit restrictions query - data flow and browser interface;

XML

Download service for public institutions

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Signed license policy and contract of using data by authorities of government or local municipality

Public servants can log in using identity card there they can access data in three basic formats:

ESRI Mapping Software Shape File SHP

MapInfo Table TAB, MAP, ID, DAT

MicroStation DGN

A cadastral data distribution tomorrow

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The current draft of Land Cadastre Act is expected to enter into force in year 2014

New download and WFS services are implemented

Cadastre is going to issue digitally signed documents free of charged

All legal persons perform public duties can download cadastral data free of charged

Any person can download up to 10 cadastral unit data per day free of charged having Estonian identity card

Over 10 cadastral unit fee are calculated 0.05 € per each cadastral unit but not more 3000 €

Thank you!

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