1. The land cadastral restrictions information system in Estonia
Mr. Priit Kuus
Department of Land Cadastre + (
Moscow 2011

2. Restrictions: legal grounds
The Constitution of the Republic of Estonia article 32
Everyone has the right to freely possess, use, and dispose of his or her property
Property shall not be used contrary to the public interest
Restrictions shall be provided by law 1

3. Restrictions: legal grounds
Law of Property Act article 140 to 141
A restriction pursuant to law is valid without entry in the land register
Land Cadastre Act article 12
The cadastral registrar shall enter the location of objects which give rise to restrictions on the restrictions map 2

4. Restrictions: legal grounds
REAL RIGHTS
Ownership
Restricted real rights
Restriction in public law
Right of ownership
Servitudes
Environmental
Real encumbrances
Water protection
Right of pre-emption
Utility networks
Right of security
State facilities
LAND REGISTER
LAND CADASTRE 3

5. Restrictions: legal grounds
Objects which gives rise to restrictions are which:
gives rise to restriction zone (42 different zones)
can spatially identified (X,Y,Z)
21 public law acts give rise to restrictions.
100 features what must be collected. 4

6. Restrictions: legal grounds
Restrictions data use in cadastre
Owner of an object
Cadastre plan
LAND CADASTRE
Surveyng & mapping
Land surveyor
RIS
Other state register
Assignment
Formation of the cadastral unit
Ascertainment of restrictions 5

7. Restrictions: legal grounds
Restrictions data use in cadastre
Import to RIS
Owner of an object
Cadastre plan
Order an ascertainment
Control of location of objects
LAND CADASTRE
Surveyng & mapping
Land surveyor
RIS
Determination of location of objects
Other state register
Assignment
Formation of the cadastral unit
Ascertainment of restrictions
Import to RIS
Sumbmit the objects data 6

8. Restrictions statistics
Exchange of data between:
7 different state registers
23 different utility network corporations
There are registered:
Over 53 thousand km2 polygon objects in total area
Over 116 thousand km line objects in total length
Over 100 thousand point objects
Restriction zones are covered:
About 87% of cadastral units
Estonian Republic
Area: km² 7

9. Restriction zone statistics
State essential facilities:
13% of land
Cultural heritage, mining, planning protections… 8

10. Restriction zone statistics
Technical facilities:
6% of land
Utility networks, roads, railway, airports… 9

11. Restriction zone statistics
Water protections:
37% of land
Water, water intakes, land improvement … 10

12. Restriction zone statistics
Protected natural objects:
26% of land
Environmental protected areas, species, fossils, minerals, environmental monitoring … 11

13. Restrictions Information System (RIS)
Main principles of the RIS are:
Able to collect restriction object data from different sources
Generate and renew restriction zone according to valid law
Spatially relate restriction objects and zones to cadastral unit
Able easy data exchange and represent for interested persons 12

14. Restrictions Information System (RIS)
Center of rules
ADMINISTRATION APPLICATION
OBJECT SETTINGS
ZONE DIFFERENCES
RESTR. ZONE SETTINGS
SOURCE SETTINGS
GENERATOR SETTINGS
OUTPUT APPLICATION
DATA EXCHANGE APPLICATION
REPORTS
OBJECT EDITING
OBJECT IMPORT
PLANS
OBJECT EXPORT
ANALYSIS
Presenting object and restrictions
Registering objects in the cadastre
X-ROAD
OTHER STATE DATABASES 13

15. Restrictions Information System (RIS)
RIS interface acceptable data exchange formats:
GIS data formats in direct import :
GML
ESRI Mapping Software Shape File SHP
MapInfo Table TAB, MAP, ID, DAT
CAD data mast be transfomed, restructure and attributed through the transformation process 14

16. Restrictions: Web map service
Web based restriction map is public:
Land board geoportal restrictions WMS:
Able to search cadastral unit
Able to search restriction object
Able to print A4 and A3 paper formats with scale
Able to save prints in pdf
Able to directly link to searches: Link1 Link2 Link3 … 15

17. Why Why such the distinctive system is a good? 
Keep clean land register of recurrent restricted real rights
(Restrictions are provided by law)
To pre-empt legal conflicts at ownership interest
(Spatially presented restrictions are better perceptible)
To give better base data for regional planning
(All data from one base)
To support fair land taxation
(Fair taxation – good mood)
Thank you!
FINISH 