Cadastral Theme
Cadastral data layers represent landed property. Cadastal is broadly defined as descriptions of public and private legal and fiscal interests in land.

Typically cadastral data is composed of land ownership records (Brown and Moyer 1989). Land information, including digital and paper maps, surveys, indexes, and deeds, is used by tax assessors, property owners, and building inspectors. It is used in land use planning, zoning, transportation planning and management, emergency response systems, waste management and disposal systems, in the designation and monitoring of protected areas, parks and open spaces, infrastructure and public utilities management (Ventura 1997).

 

For more information about how the Catalog Theme pages work, descriptions of download file formats, and so on refer to the Catalog Tips.
You will find that not everything works for every data layer in these listings. Our efforts at documenting, indexing, and distributing data are a work in progress. Although we cannot currently provide all the information you need to locate all data on this server, we will try to provide as much as possible at any given stage of a project.

The availability of the buttons on this page is a function of

1. The state of completion of documentation and data packaging for any given layer. The Catalog and the Clearinghouse will probably never be complete, but as we finish documentation for existing data sets, and for those that result from ongoing research projects we will add as much information to these pages as we can at various stages.
2. Our ability to distribute the data or the documentation. CAST does not 'own' all the data sets that reside in our warehouse. However we want to provide as much information to the public about these data sets as we can.
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Brown P. and D. Moyer
(Editors)
1989
 Multipurpose Land Information Systems The Guidebook, The Federal
GeodeticControl Committee. (The Guidebook can be ordered online. )
Ventura, Stephen J.
  
1997
 Land Information Systems and Cadastral Applications, NCGIA Core
Curriculum in GIScience.University of California, Berkeley.