20.06.2013
Belarus, Russia to update topographic maps
MINSK, 20 June (BelTA) - The State Property Committee of Belarus (Goskomimushchestvo) and the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre, and Cartography of Russia (Rosreyestr) have plans to update topographic maps of the Belarusian-Russian border regions. This issue is on the agenda of a session of Goskomimushchestvo and Rosreyestr in Russia’s Petrozavodsk running on 19-21 June, BelTA learnt from the press service of Goskomimushchestvo.
The two agencies have prepared a joint address to the Permanent Committee of the Union State concerning financial support to update the maps of the 1:50,000 and 1:100,000 scales of the border territories between Belarus and Russia. After the status of works has been decided the issue will be introduced to a session of the Council of Ministers of the Union State.
Participants to the session will share experience in part of using geo-portals, web-portals that will enable more efficient land management and registration of rights to own land parcels. The session will be also updated on the coordinate systems that are used to create spatial data infrastructure for the state inventory of immovable property.
The specialists say that every joint session of Goskomimushchestvo and Rosreyestr is important for increasing the efficiency of works carried out in geodesy, cartography, geo-information technologies, Earth remote sensing, land inventory and state registration of immovable property, rights to own it and making transactions that involve such property. Such sessions set guidelines to cooperation in the forthcoming years.
Pursuant to the decisions and recommendations adopted at the joint meeting in Smolensk last October, Goskomimushchestvo and Rosreyestr exchanged the legal acts in the field of registration of rights to immovable property and land register in 2013.
Attending the current session is Chairman of the State Property Committee of Belarus Georgy Kuznetsov, officials from the National Cadastre Agency, Belgiprozem Design Institute and the Minsk city agency for state registration and land cadastre.
The two agencies have prepared a joint address to the Permanent Committee of the Union State concerning financial support to update the maps of the 1:50,000 and 1:100,000 scales of the border territories between Belarus and Russia. After the status of works has been decided the issue will be introduced to a session of the Council of Ministers of the Union State.
Participants to the session will share experience in part of using geo-portals, web-portals that will enable more efficient land management and registration of rights to own land parcels. The session will be also updated on the coordinate systems that are used to create spatial data infrastructure for the state inventory of immovable property.
The specialists say that every joint session of Goskomimushchestvo and Rosreyestr is important for increasing the efficiency of works carried out in geodesy, cartography, geo-information technologies, Earth remote sensing, land inventory and state registration of immovable property, rights to own it and making transactions that involve such property. Such sessions set guidelines to cooperation in the forthcoming years.
Pursuant to the decisions and recommendations adopted at the joint meeting in Smolensk last October, Goskomimushchestvo and Rosreyestr exchanged the legal acts in the field of registration of rights to immovable property and land register in 2013.
Attending the current session is Chairman of the State Property Committee of Belarus Georgy Kuznetsov, officials from the National Cadastre Agency, Belgiprozem Design Institute and the Minsk city agency for state registration and land cadastre.