FIG Commission 7: Cadastre and Land Management 2005 Annual Meeting

摘要

The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) is composed of ten commissions, each with a specific focus in the surveying community. FIG Commission 7, whose focus is on cadastre and land management, held its annual meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, on June 18-23, 2005. Thirty delegates from twenty-four countries attended. For many attendees it was their first visit to America. It was also the first time in the 128-year history of FIG that any of the ten commissions have held their annual meeting in the USA. The focus of the Commission 7 annual meeting was on land management and development issues from around the world. Unlike most of the rest of the world, where these issues are handled on a national basis, the USA is unique in that most of the surveying and land management issues (zoning, sale, transfer, assessment, taxation) are administered and regulated at the local level. This became a primary focal point of the meeting, with the intent to give the international delegates a better idea of how things work in America.