Hello Map it Out readers,
It's a pleasure to write the foreword for this edition of Map it Out from where I am, on the land of the Wurundjeri people. If you don’t yet know about our pioneering big data project - the Digital Cadastre Modernisation Project - visit our website to learn more.
Highlights for the Digital Cadastre Modernisation Project this year include:
- 2 million parcels digitised at July 2021
- more than 15,000 cadastral queries resolved
- early release of digitised land parcel data to industry (open access)
- the launch in October of an online tool designed to prepare organisations to adopt the spatially upgraded Vicmap from late 2021
I continue to be amazed by the many moving and interrelated parts of this highly technical project. By the end of 2022, we will have digitised 3.35 million land parcels, creating Australia’s first complete state-wide dataset of land parcels.
The benefit of this work and investment in the digital transformation of our land administration data. This will improve the efficiency, maintenance and usability of the State’s land data management well into the future.
An early benefit of digital cadastre modernisation that we are very excited about is the release of our accumulated digitised land parcels from our database, for use by interested spatial and surveying professionals.
Visit the early data release page to explore this resource and learn more about how the data may benefit your organisation. At the time of writing, you will have access to over 2 million digitised land parcels from over 30 Victorian municipalities
This database is dynamic in that it will reflect the additional digitised parcels that we achieve each day in our digitisation work. We are interested in your feedback about this newly released resource and keen to answer any questions you may have.
Other benefits of digital cadastre modernisation will be the speeding up of administrative processes for land subdivision, asset management and planning. The upgraded land parcel data will improve the accuracy of Vicmap and create a new digital dataset that, with multi-sectoral innovation and efficiency over time, will get better and better.
Along the way the Digital Cadastre Modernisation Project is building a highly skilled team. We are developing strong relationships with Victorian industry, working other States and national peak bodies and innovating to improve the State’s efficiency in managing huge volumes of data through the creation of tools and algorithms.
I am really proud of the work we are doing and look forward to achieving future milestones. We will be providing our project updates about digital cadastre modernisation through Map it Out from here on in, so now there is just one place to catch up on all of Land Use Victoria’s spatial and surveying projects.
Mark Grant
Project Director | Digital Cadastre Modernisation Program
Local Infrastructure | DELWP