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EPlan
Electronic processing of digital plans - EPlan
Land and Property Information (LPI), has started work on an exciting new program that will build capability for the electronic processing of digital land title plans in NSW.
Consisting of a series of projects, the EPlan Program is expected to deliver significant benefits to the surveying profession, property industry, LPI and other key stakeholders involved in land development. By providing a more efficient electronic environment, the program will substantially enhance the quality of plan data, reduce requisitions and improve plan processing and turnaround times.
What’s happening?
EPlan Business Case
Lands commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to develop a Business Case for the EPlan Program.
If you would like more information about the Business Case or the options considered see the Business Case Summary (PDF 97 kb)
Development of a National Standard
One of the aims of the program is to develop a plan information management system incorporating automated electronic lodgement, examination, registration and data capture for the cadastre that uses digital plan data lodged in a file modelled on the LandXML format.
Lands have been participating in the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) ePlan working group to develop an Australasian standard for the transfer of digital cadastral and survey data in Land XML format.
The working group has developed a model to produce a generic LandXML export/import format for cadastral plan data that includes jurisdictional specific elements. The ePlan Model accommodates all of the survey geometry, administrative and titling data required to process a plan from lodgment to registration and Digital Cadastral Database (DCDB) update.
Lands have recently conducted a review of the ICSM ePlan Model and jurisdictional XML Schemas for capturing and representing Australian jurisdictional data with a LandXML document.
The documents, XML Schemas and XML data files, which resulted from the review are intended for use by all ICSM ePlan members and interested third-parties including CAD software vendors.
ICSM is seeking feedback on the review documentation to ensure the endorsed national standard adequately meets the requirements of the surveying profession, software vendors and associated industries
The ICSM ePlan Review file (ZIP 15.4 mb) is available for download. It contains the ICSM ePlan Revew manifest (PDF 277 kb), review documentation, XML Schemas and XML data files.
You can register interests and provide feedback by completing the Registration form.
Introducing new plan forms
In March 2007, Lands proposed new plan forms and sought feedback from customers. In response, some adjustments were made to the original proposal. Details of changes have now been finalised and it is expected that the new requirements will be introduced on 1 September 2007.
For information on the new requirements see LPI Circular 2007/09 (PDF 89.5 kb).
The new plan forms and information kits are available on the Plan Form page.
