The cadastral survey – a national product – provides data relating to landownership and is the basis for a broad variety of geographic data and applications in the economy, the administration and private life.
The main task in the area of cadastral surveying is to collect data relating to plots of land and update the data as necessary. This means it makes a valuable contribution towards the safeguarding of real estate. At the same time it forms the basis for virtually all other geographic data, which are essential for numerous applications in the economy, the public administration and private life. Thus many geographic information systems, for example for district, urban and zoning plans, are based on cadastral survey data, which in their entirety form a national product for which uniform standards have been defined.