Floss in Cadastre and Land Registration

Historical development

The first cadastre and land registry system covering systematically the entire ter-

ritory of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been established by the Austrian-Hungarian 

Administration before WW I on the model used in Austria. After WW II, cadastral 

maps were progressively replaced by a new survey using a classical aerophotogra-

metric method to establish new maps with better quality and homogeneity. These 

maps are now under digitization and, even if they were not systematically kept 

 up-to-date, offer a good homogeneous technical basis for establishing a fully 

 digital cadastral system. In the 1990s, different software applications were devel-

oped to manage textual information only, but no graphical information, except in 

very limited areas.

In the years 2005-7, a cadastral data model has been developed as a standard 

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for data description, structures and exchange interface, in accordance with the 

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  By-law on cadastre data management, Administration for geodetic and property-related affairs of the 

 Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, see http://www.fgu.com.ba/index.php?part=stranice&id=208

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ISO 19000 standards. Since the digitization process of graphical data has been 

 accelerated in the last years in particular within a World Bank funded project, the 

need for an appropriate database maintenance tool has significantly grown. The 

financial resources of the Administrations in charge of the cadastral maintenance 

are limited, so that an analysis was conducted on potential software solutions 

 using open-source platforms (Mićanović et al., 2008).