International Federation of Surveyors

Fédération Internationale des Géomètres International Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

FIG Office in Copenhagen

Surveyors House 1999-

Supported by Danish surveyors

Director and 2 Assistants

Australian Context

• Federal

• State

• Local Government

Australia - NSW

Land Area: 7,617,930 sq km

Land Area: 802,000 sq km

NSW – history of change• 1788 Colonisation/ all crown land

• 1817 Registration of all deeds

• 1824 Selling of Crown Land without survey

• 1843 Deeds registration act/office of the RG

• 1864 Torrens system

• 1960s Completion of transfer of suitable crown land

• 1983 electronic titling

NSW – history of change (Continued)

• 1987 online access to register

• 1991 commercialisation of Land Titling Office

• 1997 on line registration – integrated titling

• 1998 network of information brokers

• 2001 formation of LPI as a GBE

• 2002 electronic lodgement of cadastral plans

• 2003 formation of the Department of Lands

Integration of Land Information

• LPI brought together 3 independent agencies– Land Titles Office Maintain the NSW

register of land titles– Land Information Centre – Mapping

the State on behalf of the Government– Valuer General’s Office – Maintain

Register of Land values for rating and taxing purposes

Significance of LPI to NSW

• Supports private trading of 1,000 properties per day worth $400 million

• Supports the collection of $24 million per day in duties, rates & taxes

• Underpins the spatial data infrastructure of the State of NSW

• Is a significant facilitator of economic activity in NSW

Information Assets

• 1.7m registered plans defining the boundaries of discrete property titles

• 3.5m registered titles recording interests in land

• 30m registered dealings effecting interests in land

• 180,000 registered survey control marks• 0.5million paper maps• 3.5million polygons in the DCDB• Aerial archive of NSW• Full topographic coverage of NSW

Summary of Core Business Volumes

1 million last year

70,000 per year

6 million per year

4.7 million in the financial year 2003-04

Dealing Registrations

New Titles created

Total Inquiries Processed ElectronicallySearch Transactions Processed viaInternet

Local Data

Regional Data

State Data

Composite Data

Find Result

Search by Address

Result – Search by Address

Click on Purchase Title Details

Search by Title Reference

Search by Property Number

Result by Property Number

Multi Lot Property – Rural Example (2)

When you “pick” a parcel in a multi lot property, it will be shaded a different colour and “highlighted” will appear next to its title reference in the FPC

WEBSITES

• Lands website(www.lands.nsw.gov.au)

• Local Government Portal

(www.lpi-online.lpi.nsw.gov.au/lg)

• Geospatial Data

(www.maps.nsw.gov.au)

Training & Modeling

StrategicPlanningSupport

Maps forInteragency

Info

Command&

Control

OperationalSupportMapping

Maps on demand

EmergencyMapping

Emergency Information Coordination UnitConceptual Configuration

Enterprise Data

SEOC / POC / RFS /

EICU

Private Utilities

Other Contributor Agencies

EICUServer

Police Department

Rural Fire Services

Cadastral

Ambulance

Local Government

Public Works NSWFire

Brigades

State Emergency Services

Health Services

Positive aspects

• The Torrens system in NSW

• Technology as an enabler

• A register of rights, not just a titling system

• Spatial data infrastructure approach

• Focus on rights, obligations and restrictions in the central register of restrictions

• Surveying outlook, vision and integration

We are busy building and developing the Title Registries of today and struggling with the

complexities of introducing a whole new way of doing business through electronic conveyancing.

But what will the Registries of the future be like?

Will the role of the Registries within the conveyancing industry change?

Will they be virtual organisations?

Will they be relegated to back-room processing factories?

What will be the scope of their activities?

Will their influence expand across other sectors?

Before we can consider these questions we need to look at what is happening in related industries and with the

associated enabling technology.

Around the world jurisdictions are taking advantage of inter operability and enterprise architecture to link and combine spatial and aspatial data to provide electronic service delivery (ESD) and expose themselves to the

concept of “location based services”.

The following slide shows the four stages of ESD Activity and the underpinning activity of e-pay.

ESDActivity

Service Description Role of Service ProviderCustomer

ActionCustomer

Experience

e-Publish Information, instructions, hyperlinksOne way traffic, static

Up-to-date webpage information Seeks e-information

Static web

e-Inquiry Specific inquiry to a databaseMultiple or combined inquiry to

databaseStatic view

Up-to-date databases & e-service system

e-Service request e-Response

e-Lodge Client submits information to a database electronically

Process information received through e-facility

e-Transmit by client

e-Receipt

e-Trade Two way “trade” of data Interdependent e-actions

Combination of e-lodge, e-pay and e- inquire

Provides secure, accessible environment for e-market

e-Trade       Staged completion of e-

Trade

e-Pay Completes financial transfers for all e-activity sales, trades, lodge, billing

Provide access to secure electronic banking services to support

business

Authorise payments

e-Receiptse-Debits    

ELECTRONIC SERVICE DELIVERY ACTIVITIESThis table outlines ESD activities and describes the role of service providers and customers.

Most of the examples around the world show a proliferation of websites but a relatively low take up rate of these electronic

Services, especially those related to “location based services”, which are inextricably linked to the core business of RG’s and

SG’s.

This is understandable as most sites have not progressed past the e-publish and e-enquiry stage and it is not until the

services can provide e-lodge and e-trade that a comprehensive business interaction can take place.

The present direction in Australia towards e-conveyancing is an example of e-trade. However, some other jurisdictions across the globe who have implemented e-conveyancing

have been disappointed by the take up rate – why?.

The following slide shows the complexity and hierarchical nature of the layers of geo-spatial

information that is required for Emergency Management and Counter Terrorism.

This information relies on cadastral and property information to provide the framework for all the other

layers.

Naturally each industry has a different hierarchy of information, but they are all dependent on the

fundamental cadastral and property layers.

What will be the role of the Land Registries in such future activitiy ?

To access this complex information we need an interoperability framework that allows for a

distribution and flexible approach.

This approach means that custodians maintain control of the data but each group or industry

with appropriate authority can seamlessly build interactive integrated information sets.

NaturalResources

Utilities

EmergencyServices

Local Government

Law & Order

OtherAgencies

AccessChannels

ExistingAgency

Networks Geospatial

Portal

nsw.gov.au

Web MapService

ThickClient

DirectConnect

BrowserPDA

B T

W D

Given this world of interoperability and whole-of-Government enterprise architecture combined with the ability to provide comprehensive e-trade functionality

where do Registries of the future fit in?

If we return to the questions posed at the beginning of these slides we can now address these in the context of

the new enabling technologies.

Will the role of the Registries within the conveyancing industry change?

The way we undertake our business through the registry offices is and will continue to change significantly, however, this should not

diminish in any way the leadership role the Registrars General (RG’s) will continue to play in the conveyancing and land based

industries.

Will the registries of the future be virtual organisations?

Part of the activities could be undertaken in a virtual sense, but the important advisory and leadership role of the Registrars General will not be virtual – what will their “value added be” setting of standards,

guiedlines and oversight of statutory compliance.

Will the Registries be relegated to back-room processing factories?

Only if we allow this to happen.

For example, the term ‘automatic registration’ is sometimes used to describe what is really ‘electronic examination’. If these terms give rise to the belief that

registration is a simple ‘vending machine’ transaction, then we will be perceived as a back end process only.

The next slide depicts a range of the expanding activities that some registries are embracing and a selection of the industry sectors that

are dependent on this information.

What will be the scope of the activity?

REGISTRIES

WATER ACCESS LICENCE

PLANNING

RESTRICTIONS

BUILDING PLANS

TITLE

RIGHTS

OTHER

OTHER

CONVEYANCING

HEALTH

EMERGENCY MGT

NATURAL RESOURCES

MGT

The preceding slide shows that as a central part of the fundamental building blocks of geo-spatial information, some Registrars

may have an expanding responsibility and accountability across other major sectors – they will need to if their relevance is to be

increasingly maintained.

Will their influence expand across other sectors?

eco-civic regionalisation project for regional NSW

Objective

To identify administrative boundary’s issues based on regional socio-economic research, using spatial analysis

The area that a person regards as their community can be plotted on a map, together with their ‘home point’ ie their place of usual residence

In 3-D the area that a person regards as their community can be represented as a disc

This disc can be approximatedby an elliptical disc

The community areas for all the people in a district is a pile of elliptical discs

If the number of people is large, it can be represented by a smoothly curved surface

A boundary that cuts through very few community areas (purple line) is preferable to a boundary that cuts through many such areas (red line).

Preliminary findings …

75%

50%

25%

LGA analysis

CMA analysis

Specific Outputs

Specific outputs from the initiative are:• 3D modelled social surface of communities of

interest for NSW.• Three levels of modelled civic regions of

regional communities of interest for NSW.• Biophysical classification of ecological

landscapes.

Specific Outputs (cont’d)

• Level 1 eco-civic regions to provide broad scale integration across large catchment or resource management regions and their land-user communities.

• Level 2 eco-civic regions appropriate for Resource Planning and Management.

Specific Outputs (cont’d)

• Level 3 eco-civic regions appropriate for State Government service delivery and future local government areas and

• A comparison of a performance of eco-civic regions (level 1-3) with some current administrative areas (LGA’s Planning, Catchment Management Authority, Planning and Health Regions.

When complete …

• 3D model of social surface of communities • Various levels of modeling of civic regions related to

regional communities • A biophysical classification of ecological landscapes • A detailed comparison of eco-civic regions with current

administrative areas for LGAs, CMAs, Planning and Health Regions.

for whole of NSW

Negative aspects

• Impact of historical policy decisions

• Structural failure and silo mentality – resistance to change.

• Federated system with another tier of local Government

National co-operative initiatives

• ANZLIC• PSMA• National e-conveyancing project• Counter Terrorism• National Data Network (Statistical/Spatial

Interface)• National Competition Reform• Sustainability (landscapes, water, rural,

communities)

Who and what is ANZLIC?

ANZLIC – the Spatial Information Council is the peak intergovernmental organisation providing leadership in the collection, management and use of spatial information in Australia and New Zealand

2010 Outcomes

2006 Milestones

1. Parliament House national SI showcase

2. Jurisdictional SI showcases

3. Showcase “Team Aust/NZ” to FIG in 2006

4. Industry partnerships developed

5. Framework to identify key national datasets

6. Topographic Information Management Toolkit & standards developed

2006 Milestones – continued…

7. Develop and deliver metadata tool compliant with new ANZLIC metadata profile

8. One new community of practice engaged

9. Graduate & practitioner recruitment and skills needs/development promoted

10. Schools education package developed

11. Harmonised regulatory framework scoped

Key improvements• Building on Single Land Cadastre-creating

value -unbundling property rights

• Data Integration and increased interoperability

• Quadruple bottom line objectives and actions

• Collaborative arrangements-driven by user needs with light regulation

Critique of Integrated Model

• Has the core elements and inter-relationships needs to be adaptive and relevant to all

• Danger of being static and limited if viewed in one dimension – needs to be dynamic and connected to “live work and play concept” with focus on spatial representation – location based services.