Cadastral Boundaries: Benefits of Complexity‪.‬

INTRODUCTION Land administration is an important aspect of public administration and private business (Dale and McLaughlin 1988). Sensible use of land is necessary for its amount cannot be increased. This makes land a good candidate for investments because it cannot be destroyed and, generally, prices increase with time. Both public administration and private ownership need data on land and systems to keep the available data up-to-date. The basic building block used for this is the land parcel as identified in the cadastre (Enemark et al. 2005). European systems typically show the parcels on maps and thus not only the parcel's size is known but also its shape, the position in relation to other parcels, and where the parcel is located within the country. These maps originally were created as paper maps, but many countries moved to using digital versions in the past decades. This digitization process includes the creation of coordinates with a specified precision that then are managed by the information system used to run the cadastre.