Comments on: Warning on pitfalls of land registry http://www.thisisguernsey.com/2009/11/03/warning-on-pitfalls-of-land-registry/ Island News, Sport, Community & Lifestyle Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:11:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: W. Bruce Clark http://www.thisisguernsey.com/2009/11/03/warning-on-pitfalls-of-land-registry/#comment-55974 W. Bruce Clark Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:44:27 +0000 http://www.thisisguernsey.com/?p=39113#comment-55974 Greetings from Canada! As a Canadian surveyor who lived in Guernsey from 1970 to 1974, I can only wholeheartedly agree with "Guern abroad's" comment: Digital mapping imagery does not solve boundary issues. From 1998 to 2000 I served as the Mapping Manager for the Provine of Ontario Land Registry conversion project. Basically speaking, 200 years of deed and title documents in Ontario, Canada were digitized to create an on line searchable title database linked to a digital map. The map was created from existing surveys and where surveys did not exist, deed dimensions in many cases. The final product is a very good tool for searching title to property but it does not guarantee the extent of title or replace up to date land surveys. Nor would the proposed Guernsey land registry. Interesting topic! Greetings from Canada!

As a Canadian surveyor who lived in Guernsey from 1970 to 1974, I can only wholeheartedly agree with “Guern abroad’s” comment: Digital mapping imagery does not solve boundary issues.

From 1998 to 2000 I served as the Mapping Manager for the Provine of Ontario Land Registry conversion project. Basically speaking, 200 years of deed and title documents in Ontario, Canada were digitized to create an on line searchable title database linked to a digital map. The map was created from existing surveys and where surveys did not exist, deed dimensions in many cases.

The final product is a very good tool for searching title to property but it does not guarantee the extent of title or replace up to date land surveys.

Nor would the proposed Guernsey land registry.

Interesting topic!

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]]> By: Guern abroad http://www.thisisguernsey.com/2009/11/03/warning-on-pitfalls-of-land-registry/#comment-55781 Guern abroad Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:26:52 +0000 http://www.thisisguernsey.com/?p=39113#comment-55781 Using digital imagery on it's own would be flawed. Take one of my boundaries, it is not marked necessarily accurately by an image as it is a measured set distance from a given wall and is written in to the conveyance. I think you can only truely know a boundary by reading all relevant conveyances. Missunderstandings are likely to occur with a land registery I feel unless every property is fully 'searched' for the boundary to then be drawn. Either way you are in fact not removing the current need to search conveyances and not rely on what you see. Spend the money on a worthy project not a project that could be flawed and also is in fact none essential. This is not an essential effciency to be investigated, it costs money to move house, bite the bullet and accept that as fact. Using digital imagery on it’s own would be flawed. Take one of my boundaries, it is not marked necessarily accurately by an image as it is a measured set distance from a given wall and is written in to the conveyance. I think you can only truely know a boundary by reading all relevant conveyances. Missunderstandings are likely to occur with a land registery I feel unless every property is fully ’searched’ for the boundary to then be drawn.
Either way you are in fact not removing the current need to search conveyances and not rely on what you see.
Spend the money on a worthy project not a project that could be flawed and also is in fact none essential.
This is not an essential effciency to be investigated, it costs money to move house, bite the bullet and accept that as fact.

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