cadastral survey

Also known as: property survey

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A cadastral survey is a type of survey that records property boundaries, subdivision lines, buildings, and related details. It is used to show or record these property details. Modern surveying techniques, such as triangulation, are employed to establish precise control points for these surveys. In areas large enough for the Earth's curvature to be a factor, a mathematical representation of the Earth, like a spheroid, is used as a reference surface. These surveys are crucial for land management and legal descriptions of property.12

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The Oda regime
Cadastral surveys aimed at strengthening feudal landownership were at this stage carried out not so much to gain control over the complicated landholding and taxation system of the farmers as to define the size of fiefs (chigyō) of Nobunaga’s retainers in order to confirm the…
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Cadastral surveys aimed at strengthening feudal landownership were at this stage carried out not so much to gain control over the complicated landholding and taxation system of the farmers as to define the size of fiefs (chigyō) of Nobunaga’s retainers in order to confirm the…
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