Cadastral Surveys

Cadastral surveys deal with one of the oldest and most fundamental facets of human society: the ownership of land. They are the surveys that create, mark, define, retrace, or reestablish the boundaries and subdivisions of the public lands.

A cadastre is a comprehensive register and diagrammatic representation of all land parcels of a country. It commonly includes details of the ownership, the tenure, the precise location (some include GPS coordinates), the dimensions (and area), the cultivations if rural, and the value of individual parcels of land. Read more...

In Namibia, the cadastre covers a total of about 150,000 land parcels. It consists of an index register and an analogue, but countrywide, cadastral maps (noting sheets). The national control consists of about points about 3,200 points. An archive of legal survey measurements and records are kept at the surveyor-general office of Namibia. They are responsible for the maintaining, updating and storage of these records.

Responsibilities of a cadastral surveyor

• Farm/ Erf boundary identification & replacement
• Boundary dispute surveys
• Land subdivision & consolidation
• Servitude surveys
• Township establishment surveys