Research Article
May 1971
Improvement of Land Titles
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The proper determination of the ownership and use of land requires a system which synthesizes data relating to ownership of the physical characteristics of, and the public records relating to, land. The present system of keeping land records is antiquated and uncoordinated. Although modern equipment is solving problems of transcription, accessibility, retrievability and storage of land records, it is not performing the essential function of coordination or synthesis. The lack of coordination among land records hampers the work of the engineer, surveyor, lawyer, governmental administrator, land-planner and all other persons who are concerned with the ownership, characteristics and uses of land. CULDATA is a suggested modern system for determining, classifying and recording land data, which should achieve the desired synthesis. CULDATA utilizing the state plane coordinate system, modern surveying techniques and equipment, electronic data-processing and computerized land data banks.
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Journal of the Surveying and Mapping Division
Volume 97 • Issue 1 • May 1971
Pages: 113 - 123
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© 1971 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: May 1971
Published online: Feb 12, 2021
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Robert Lewis Zeman
Practicing lawyer, Canonsburg, Pa., Chairman of Committee on Improvement of Conveyancing and Recording Practices of Pennsylvania Bar Association, and a member and former Vice-Chairman of Committee on Improvement of Land Title Records of American Bar Association.
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