{"id":31162,"date":"2018-06-24T23:55:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T06:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcnews&#038;p=31162"},"modified":"2023-08-04T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T23:24:33","slug":"esri-selected-to-modernize-cyprus-cadastre","status":"publish","type":"arcnews","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/esri-selected-to-modernize-cyprus-cadastre","title":{"rendered":"Esri Selected to Modernize Cyprus Cadastre"},"author":1162,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10402,791,401],"tags":[11642,11672,11652,11662],"arcnews_issues":[9332],"class_list":["post-31162","arcnews","type-arcnews","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcgis-desktop","category-digital-transformation","category-government","tag-cadastre","tag-gis-upgrade","tag-land-registration","tag-taxation","arcnews_issues-arcnews-summer-2018","arcnews_sections-news"],"acf":{"short_description":"With the upgrade, Cyprus will get one of the most advanced, encompassing digital cadastral systems of the modern age.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Creating One of the Most Advanced National Systems<\/h2>\r\nCyprus has a rich, centuries-long history of individual landownership\u2014and now will get one of the most advanced and encompassing digital cadastral systems of the modern age.\r\n\r\nIn April, the Department of Lands and Surveys, within the Ministry of Interior, signed an agreement with Esri to upgrade its current GIS, called the Cyprus Integrated Land Information System (CILIS). CILIS currently underpins all cadastre and land registration processes and procedures in the Mediterranean island nation and will become a government-wide system based on the ArcGIS platform, covering the whole country.\r\n\r\n\u201cCyprus will become one of the leading places in Europe to have an integrated land registry and taxation system based entirely on Esri technology,\u201d said Mark Williams, a senior consultant at Esri and the project manager for this cadastral system upgrade. \u201cAt the end of the project, Cyprus will have one of the more sophisticated cadastre systems in the world.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe Department of Lands and Surveys is seen as one of the most important government divisions in Cyprus because everything else depends on it, according to Constantinos Papantoniou, the technical consultant at Esri who is the technical lead on the project.\r\n\r\n\u201cIf citizens want to buy land, a house, or an apartment, they have to go to the lands and surveys department to get the titles,\u201d he said. \u201cOther government entities get data from the Department of Lands and Surveys as well, including the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Interior, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":31212,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"At the signing ceremony, Minister of Interior Constantinos Petrides stated that the Department of Lands and Surveys is likely the largest provider of property-related data in Cyprus and is certainly the country\u2019s primary provider of GIS data. According to him, that makes this upgrade all the more urgent.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe task and end result is the development of a highly solid product <em>[that]<\/em> will take us forward smoothly in order to cope with all the speedy, changing trends in both technology and\u2026the highly demanding property sector in Cyprus\u2014a sector <em>[that]<\/em> is escalating successfully\u2026after the recent economic crisis due to the hard work, the careful planning, and the setting up of new goals <em>[for]<\/em> the government,\u201d he said. \u201cThis important sector needs to continuously be supported by fast and friendly, nonbureaucratic procedures; a solid and highly effective land registration and cadastral system; as well as efficient IT technology.\u201d\r\n\r\nBy taking advantage of many of the ArcGIS platform\u2019s commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions, the new version of CILIS will enable the Department of Lands and Surveys to benefit from industry best practices and new GIS capabilities as they become available. Cyprus\u2019s already-robust cadastral system now has a seamless path forward.\r\n<h2>A Long History of Cadastral Record Keeping<\/h2>\r\nAccording to the Department of Lands and Surveys, the notion of individual landownership had developed in Cyprus by 1400 BC. There is archaeological evidence that, by the fifth century BC, Cypriots had property taxation laws, state-owned (e.g., king-held) and church-owned lands, landholdings in cities, and guarantees of land tenure and ownership.\r\n\r\nIn the ensuing centuries, as Cyprus slipped in and out of control of the Greeks, the Romans, the Venetians, the Ottomans, and others, patterns of landownership changed, sometimes hinging on feudalism and other times centering on various forms of independent ownership and individual inheritance. By the nineteenth century, Cyprus\u2019s economic dependence on agriculture led to a scattered, disunited structure of landownership. Although there was a system for deed and title registration at the time, parcel boundaries were not tied to any sort of reference map or cadastral plan.\r\n\r\nBy the mid-twentieth century, this had to be fixed. Cyprus passed the immovable property law, which required everyone to register their land via titles with the Department of Lands and Surveys. This ensured that ownership was indisputable and absolute (notwithstanding any errors that the department had to correct) and that all registration is based on cadastral plans that are linked to the island-wide national grid.\r\n\r\nWith a solid, standardized land registration and cadastral system that\u2019s been in place now for more than 50 years, Cyprus is able to cope with the ebbs and flows of land-use practices throughout the island\u2014and keep in step with a property sector that\u2019s arguably becoming even more vibrant, complex, and international.\r\n\r\n\u201cThere is a lot of development going on right now,\u201d said Papantoniou. \u201cA lot of foreign companies are coming to Cyprus because of its low corporate taxation rules. They are buying land and properties in urban areas, so there is high demand in all the cities, and there is a lot of growth there\u2014construction, big buildings, hotels, and tourism.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cCyprus is a highly developed country, and this has happened during tough economic conditions,\u201d added Williams. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of investment flowing into Cyprus from the West, the Middle East, Europe, Russia, and China.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cYes, they are building a lot of high buildings right now,\u201d explained Papantoniou. \u201cFor each new high building, they need to go to the lands and surveys department because of the number of floors they want to build. That department decides what\u2019s okay.\u201d\r\n\r\nWith a landownership and cadastral system now grounded in the most innovative GIS, the Department of Lands and Surveys will be able to handle those kinds of property-based transformations with ease\u2014as well as any others that might be on the horizon."},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","image":"","text":"Cyprus will become one of the leading places in Europe to have an integrated land registry and taxation system based entirely on Esri technology. At the end of the project, Cyprus will have one of the more sophisticated cadastre systems in the world.","author_name":"Mark Williams","author_profession_organization":"Senior Consultant, Esri"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Developing a Stronger, More Powerful GIS<\/h2>\r\nThe Cypriot government has been using GIS as the subsystem for its whole cadastral platform since the turn of this century. While that was a cutting-edge system at the time, the Ministry of Interior is now looking to have GIS become a more encompassing part of its day-to-day functions and overarching responsibilities.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe upgrading of the <em>[Department of Lands and Surveys\u2019]<\/em> Land Information System was set as an urgent priority in the last meeting of the Cyprus e-Governance Board,\u201d Petrides said at the signing ceremony. \u201c<em>[It stressed]<\/em> not only the importance of the project itself, but the need to provide <em>[the department]<\/em> with the necessary IT tools in order to embrace all new technological trends vital for its operations.\u201d\r\n\r\nCyprus\u2019s GIS upgrade will revolve around various components of ArcGIS Desktop, including Esri\u2019s parcel fabric. The Department of Lands and Surveys will be able to gain access to a host of ready-to-use apps, such as Collector for ArcGIS and Insights for ArcGIS, and manage its data using the ArcGIS Data Reviewer extension. Esri is planning to implement ArcGIS Enterprise as well to ensure that cadastral data can be accessed within and across departments while remaining secure.\r\n\r\n\u201cCyprus has a strong cadastral system because of its history,\u201d said Papantoniou. \u201cNow, the Department of Lands and Surveys is going to have an even stronger system that uses the latest technology. It\u2019s a very powerful thing.\u201d\r\n\r\nAt the signing ceremony, the minister of interior expressed his enthusiasm for the upgrade, as well as his expectation that this will be a smooth transition.\r\n\r\n\u201cLarge-scale IT projects tend to always be complex and quite difficult to implement,\u201d he said. \u201cI am very confident, though, that as a ministry, we can rely, on one hand, on Esri\u2019s expertise <em>[in]<\/em> the field and global leadership in <em>[GIS] <\/em>and, on the other hand, on the vast know-how <em>[that the Department of Lands and Surveys and the Department of Information Technology Services]<\/em> possess in jointly implementing such projects successfully.\u201d"}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Esri Selected to Modernize Cyprus Cadastre | Summer 2018 | ArcNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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