Cadastral plans are the backbone of land administration in Australia, but for too long they have remained trapped in static PDF files. While they carry essential information - boundaries, annotations, important subdivision details - the format is rigid and difficult to work with. Converting these documents into usable digital data has traditionally required hours of manual digitisation and validation. It is a slow, resource-intensive process, and can be prone to human error.
Kadastre has been developed to significantly improve this process. Using artificial intelligence, the platform takes a traditional PDF cadastral plan and converts it into a structured data set containing boundaries, parcel information, corner annotations, and other important data. What was once a manual task consuming significant staff time becomes an automated process that provides data in a format that integrates directly into existing CAD drawing package and GIS platforms.
For surveyors and architects, this means greater efficiency and accuracy when establishing preliminary property boundaries for a development project, through to cadastral survey plan QA checks. For government agencies, it provides a scalable solution to receive digital cadastral survey plan data that can be easily inserted into GIS platforms to improve boundary data accuracy and accessibility and reduce administrative overhead. By removing the need to interpret and manually input cadastral survey plan information into a CAD package, Kadastre ensures greater efficiency and accuracy across a variety of projects.
"The benefits extend beyond efficiency,” says Giles Johnson, Operations Manager of Kadastre. “Our platform delivers accurate digital cadastral survey base data over which additional datasets can be overlayed to generate outputs that support planning, regulatory, and infrastructure decisions."
As Australia prepares for major growth and infrastructure delivery in the coming decade, the demand for faster, more reliable cadastral survey data will only increase. Kadastre represents a shift in how this information is managed - from static records to living, digital resources. By combining cadastral survey expertise with AI-driven automation, Kadastre delivers the clarity, speed, and precision required by surveyors, architects, and government agencies alike - enabling professionals to focus on decisions rather than data processing.