ABSTRACT
The supply of information for land-use management in rural areas presents a problem, due to the requirements in terms of time and money. This chapter discusses two developments in the Netherlands in relation to the supply of information for land-use management. The first concerns the use of data bases in which graphics data are linked to nongraphics data. A simple example is an information system called the Land Division Survey for General Land-Use Management (CIAB). This is a farm-level data base in which the coordinates of farm buildings are combined with farm data. The second development concerns the linking of several data bases which contain graphics data. This is done by means of digitizing basic information from topographic map sheets. The most important function of the digitized topographic map is to serve as a common base for the different stand-alone geographic information systems that are relevant for a land consolidation project.
