Land registry, geodesy and surveying

Land registry and geodesy

The Lechner Non-profit Ltd. (LTK), as the top organisation of geodesy, surveying and land registry, performs the basic national tasks defined in Act XLVI of 2012 on surveying and mapping Activities.

Land registry

Our task is the maintenance, operation and development of a unified Hungarian land registry system. LTK provides IT support for 119 district and county land offices, performing the maintenance and development of databases, software, and online data supply solutions (TAKARNET, Land Office Online). LTK customer service assists  more than 10 000 TAKARNET users. The customer number is increased by the several thousand land registry experts employed by the land offices. The land lease register and the land registry database, including cadastral maps, manage the authentic data of nearly 10 million properties in Hungary, so that the activities of LTK are connected with almost every inhabitant and enterprise across the country.

Geodesy and Surveying

LTK operates the databases of the national base spatial data, which is a part of the national data asset, and provides the data via customer service. The cadastral map shows the legal, the topographic map the natural state of the environment, the supplied terrain and surface models describe the elevation information of the natural and the built environment. Requests for these information are mostly made online via the geoshop.hu geoportal or the fentrol.hu Digital Aerial Photo Archive website. Geodata are served via internet to partners defined by law and to other customers. Services are mainly WMS or WMTS, web-based services and web applications.

LTK maintains and develops the Satellite Geodetic Observatory, and the GNSSnet.hu reference station network. LTK’s GNSS Service Centre is the leading satellite-based positioning system of Hungary, supporting the everyday work of several thousand surveyors and precision farmers. In the K-GEO Accredited Calibration Laboratory, LTK performs the calibration of geodetic electro-optical distant measuring (EDM) instruments and GNSS receivers as well.

LTK’s supervises, records and maintains the horizontal and vertical control point network serving as the geodetic reference system of Hungary, which is also the basis of national maps. LTK’s official tasks also include the authorization, technical supervision and official acceptance of works related to control point networks. Based on the principle of ‘organized border – good neighbourship’, LTK provides the surveying and mapping tasks, the periodic maintenance and renewal of the border marks, the clear visibility of the border-line of the 2215 km-long border of Hungary, marked with nearly 21000 border marks.

LTK performs official tasks related to “Surveyor” and “Licenced surveyor” certificates and provides access to a public list of those. LTK accredits the training courses required for certification. Since the control points can only be replaced or moved by a surveyor who is registered by the state administration for surveying and geoinformatics, LTK operates the registry of qualified control point network and state border surveyors.

The manuals and guidelines related to surveying and land administration tasks are available for anyone for downloading in pdf format for free from LTK’s Hungarian website.