Nicolas Schmidt
Project Manager
PLR-cadastre GIS Center
Construction Directorate
Canton of Zurich,Switzerland

Biography
Nicolas Schmidt works for the GIS competence center of Zürich's cantonal administration since November 2013. He is the project manager for the "ÖREB Kataster", the cadastre for public-law restrictions, and works also on other projects like the introduction of the federal minimal geodata models. Before this, he worked for a software engineering company, where he managed large IT projects for the financial industry and for the European space agency for 15 years. He is married, has 2 children and lives in Zürich.

Abstract
The Cadastre of Public-law Restrictions on Landownership (PLR-cadastre) in Zurich

Switzerland is one of the first countries worldwide to introduce a cadastre of public-law restrictions. The respective law is in place and the schedule foresees to introduce the cadastre nationwide by the end of 2019. The cantons are responsible for it's implementation. In 2010, eight cantons were appointed to spearhead the campaign and after three years of intensive legal, process-related, organizational and technical analysis and preparations, the cadastre went on-line in five of the eight pilot cantons in January 2014. Zürich, as one of the five, introduced the legally binding system in 15 of it's 170 communities, amongst which is the City of Zürich. Inside the boundaries of these communities, it is now possible for the public and all interested parties to download a detailed report of all active public-law restrictions on a per parcel basis. The system not only presents the effective, legally binding situation, but also shows projected changes of public-law restrictions in different stages of their introduction and/or revision processes. Currently, the cadastre system is validated: data quality, the tool-set and all involved processes are examined carefully and optimized where necessary. After a consolidation phase, further communities will be included into the cadastre successively. In this speech, you will be presented with the overall solution the canton of Zürich chose to implement the cadastre of public-law restrictions. We will have a look at the architecture, the content and the processes involved and you will learn which challeges we faced during the project.