The Cadastral system and Real Estate Databases. The Austrian cadastre came about as the result of a unified boundary survey based on a geodetic control network carried out in the first half of the nineteenth century. In the second half of that century, the land register came into being as a legal guarantee for real estate where all parcels of land and land-related rights were recorded. This cadastre, later on was converted into a modern legal cadastre, and the land registers made public. They are kept up to date and in constant accordance, and their contents can be relied upon completely.
Cadastral borders give binding proof of real estate and indicate use, area and other information.
It is possible to obtain information on real estates for planning and other purposes. Information available includes extracts from the real estate index concerning land use, such as areas, agricultural use, gardens, vineyards, alpine regions, forests, waters, and the digital cadastral map. These data are directly linked to the cadastral coordinated system, so that over time, a complete inventory of the infrastructure data will be acquired. This activity provides much work for private surveyors authorised to operate the real estate data banks. In the 1990's a major overhaul of the university curricula at Graz and Wien took place as a response to modern technological developments and the emergence of LIS and GIS as major areas of interest for the surveyor.