Geographic Information in Europe
GISPOL Conference Conclusions
Ostróda and Mierki, Poland, 17-19 September 1998

Introduction.

The Polish GISPOL Association has existed since May 1996. GISPOL is a non profit organisation with 141 individuals and 25 supporting members, which creates the climate for aggregated LIS and which brings together the system creators, providers and users. GISPOL has organised 3 conferences, 23 seminars, 17 other meetings,
and published 7 volumes of bulletin GISPOL since it was formed.

The most recent Scientific - Technical Conference on the subject "The Aggregated LIS in the Reformed Administration" was organised by the Voivode of Olsztyn and the GISPOL Association in Ostróda and Mierki in Olsztyn Province on 17 - 19 September 1998. The conference was successful and had 160 participants and 24 reports. The Secretary General of EUROGI Mr Ch.Chenez and Swedsurvey representative Mr A.Sundquist actively took part in the conference. Important conclusions were, as outlined below:

Commission composition.

Jadwiga Myczkowska, Chairman
Wojciech Pachelski, member
Waldemar Klocek, member
Tadeusz Michalski, member

The functioning level of modern society depends on the development level of computer science. One of many different kinds of information systems plays a specific part, a part of binding or filling other systems. Geographic Information System (GIS) is called, in Polish conotation "Aggregated LIS". While awareness of GIS/ALIS is growing, it is still not sufficient. Different institutions or departments are trying to create isolated systems. A common real estate assessment is a typical example of a multi-system task that can be completed thanks to the co-operation of many systems.

The Commission's conclusions.


1. To bring about appointing a plenipotentiary of the Government with full powers who will also be able to co-ordinate the Integrated Land Information System tasks in order, among other things:
  • to create a uniform concept of the Integrated LIS organisation, considering the research project named "Conception of Spatial Information System in Poland" established by the Science Research Committee following the motion of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration,
  • to develop the financing rules of the LIS installation and updating,
  • to ensure cohesion of the LIS operating and systems and tool programmes connected with it and obligatory in the whole country both in urban and rural areas.
  • to recognize and determine politics in the field of preparing and training the personnel creating and developing the Integrated LIS.
  • to constitute the manner of making the data sets accessible.
2. To specify the principles of the exchange and use of information about buildings between the units making the evidence of grounds and properties, construction supervision and the organ of the state statistics.

3. To hasten the elaboration of uniform rules of keeping the records of boundaries and the administrative unit complying with the European Union requirements in this scope.

4. To secure financial means to make geodetic records of the technical infrastructure of the land or to force that it should be financed by the branch units by an appropriate amendment to art.28 act.3 in the act of 17.05.1989 Geodetic and Cartographic law.

5. To start works on determining principles and prices connected with information accessibility including works on determining rules of financial settlements of units co- financing LIS.

6. To establish, on the central level, principles of obtaining data for developing and current updating of LIS which is being created (among other things, principles of access to PESEL and REGON systems and land and mortgage register data.

7. To speed up works on computerising land and mortgage registers and to accomplish synchronising data identifying an object and a subject in the informatics sets of the ground and building records and land and mortgage registers.

8. To create a direct link between the ground and building evidence with the local tax assessment. Reasons for such linking are confirmed by the pilot experiments, which showed notable lowering of data included in the tax declarations comparing with the evidence data. In this situation local tax systems should be supported by the evidence of ground and building system and in the future by the real estate cadastre.

9. To modernise the existing technical instructions and to adapt the current measurement technologies and missing instructions G-V, G-VII and taxation as quickly as possible.

10. To start works on determining the agreement and acceptance of a standardised real estate cadastre model, independent of the hardware and software platforms. Such model should create a basis for future adaptation and individual software solutions harmonisation in the local centres, and should enable automatic data transfer, create the Aggregated LIS and should be connected with the IT system of the Integrated Europe.

11. To regulate according to law the scope of the information contained in LIS including securing the data against external interference in order to protect personal interests of citizens and other subjects.

12. To determine a way of assigning features to the documents issued in the numerical form and public - legal conditions of their circulation and use.

13. The general real property taxation carried out in Pabianice and in Ostróda showed that it is possible to conduct the general real property taxation in a quick and cheap way, on the basis of the market data in relation to the value shaping and of the ground and building evidence with the reference to the taxation subject.

14. The integrated Land Information System is a base for the rational management of an administration unit. An effective condition of the system usage is that it should be maintained by specialised services, in such a way that the authorities and the executive machinery of a commune can use its effects in a continuous way.

15. After concluding the whole implementation process and looking for different ways of the mass real property appraisal, it has been found that it is possible to carry out the task and even to shorten the process of its execution significantly, at relatively low costs, if an appropriate co-operation of geodetic, financial, and real estate register, and notarial services is secured.

16. In order to elaborate the final taxation model it is necessary to repeat the Pabianice
implementation on big objects, having numerical databases prepared earlier.

17. In order to establish the building evidence quickly, a close co-operation with the Chief Central Statistical Office should be developed, in order to join organisation efforts and financial means assigned for executing the National Census in 2000.

18. Databases of the industrial buildings should be completed by data being in a special "Industrial building card" and obligations of up-dating those data should be introduced in co-ordination with the Chief Central Statistical Office.

19. It seems to be advantageous to perform, on the basis of the Pabianice experiment, the computer simulation of a new value tax and to compare it with the property, agricultural, and forest taxes for particular groups of real properties.

20. Irrespective of the final shape of the cadastre, it is advisable to accelerate the process of establishing the numerical maps of ground and building evidence.

21. It is considered to be advisable to prepare an equivalent technology, based on the raster of the evidence map, aided by a basic map or aerial photographs for the transient determination (numbering) of the taxation objects, a construction of the pricing units, completion or checking the missing elements of the building evidence and, to some extent, the ground evidence.

22. The participants of the conference think that the creation of the so called fiscal cadastre is excessive spending of public money in the situation where the existing evidence of grounds expanded by information concerning buildings and data concerning the real estate value entirely enable to create the local tax system.

23. It is advisable to undertake works leading to the development of the standard for the rent information transfer from the databases of the evidence of the communal flats into the integrated SIT with the co-operation of the self governed organisations.

Chairman of the Conclusion Commission
J.Myczkowska
PPU GEOBID Katowice
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fax: +48 32 2417 269
e-mail: geobid@geobid.com.pl

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