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The Integration Of Cadastral Base Mapping With Cadastral Parcel Attribution, Kurt B. Wurm May 2003

The Integration Of Cadastral Base Mapping With Cadastral Parcel Attribution, Kurt B. Wurm

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A cadastre is a parcel-based, up-to-date land information system containing a record of interests in land. Creation and maintenance of a cadastre usually involves coordination between different public and private organizations that are responsible for the various data. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has built a Geographic Coordinate Data Base (GCDB) that currently provides cadastral base map data for more than 38,000 townships across the country, with many of the western states nearly complete. The GCDB strategy is that the coordinates can and do change as more recent and accurate information becomes available. The locational reliability of the …