Geomatics

Aiming to simplify the procedures of property transfer, registration or correction procedures, the Ministry of Digital Governance has submitted a draft law to a two-week public consultation with the objective of having the new Hellenic Cadastre up and running within 2025.

The key elements of the new cadastre bill were presented by Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou and Deputy Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis during the cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

The main goals are to complete the cadastre by 2025, incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into the legal review of contracts and streamline real estate transfer procedures.

The National Property Registry, also known as the Cadastre, has taken over 30 years to be prepared. Now, the government says it is confident that the project will be completed by 2026. 

The inexcusable hardship that citizens face at National Cadastre offices has its roots in the very beginning of the Greek state, in its inability to draw up a registry since then in the face of strong resistance, a weak central administration and general indifference. Now Greece is trying - in a few years - to impose order on 200 years of chaos.

Around half of Greece's municipalities have yet to declare their properties to the Hellenic Land Registry, as in many cases they do not have the necessary ownership deeds, according to the association of companies that undertake cadastral projects (SEGEK). 

The Republic of Bulgaria and Republic of Macedonia will exchange cartographic, geodetic data and cadastral materials. This includes the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Bulgarian Agency for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre and the Real Estate Cadastre Agency of the Republic of Macedonia, which was signed today between the two agencies, reports novini. 

Turkey's most prestigious cartographic museum is continuing to provide a fascinating look on the past with its trove of maps from Turkey and around the world.

Operated within the body of the Defense Ministry's General Command of Cartography, the Cartography Museum is home to maps from various periods and regions, as well as measuring and plotting apparatuses. 

We have been accustomed to seeing countries on the maps called ‘Mercator projection maps’.  The Mercator maps are cylindrical projections of countries on the globe and were first introduced in 1569 by a Belgian geographer and cartographer named Gerardus Mercator. Since then most of us have accepted that these maps accurately represent the size of each country in relation to others.

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