Traditionally the cadastre was created for fiscal purposes. In the course of time the cadastre started to be used also for other purposes. It came to be the basis for establishing land registers and at the same time was used for the protection of property. The first cadastre in Poland was established in the nineteenth century, whilst the contemporary Polish cadastre was created in the 1960s. Its base document is the land register.
Spatial structure consists of parcel boundaries, ground use boundaries and class boundaries.
Each object is described by an identifier. Card from the Polish Land register. Cutout of an analogue Polish cadastral map. The data resulting from the classical model of land cadastre are now becoming insufficient. In the course of economic development the demand for more varied information items becomes increasingly pressing.