NA A 
  
de ESS 
    
  
   
i M RR i 
  
  
Sea Lene SC HER AG SR ln DORÉ ad 
   
      
   
   
     
    
    
     
     
  
Ca Sa A t 
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
Part of the responsibility in this regard rests with our universities, which concentrate too 
much on technicalities of the type ''how?" instead of giving a clear answer to "why?"', Talking 
to some of my distinguished colleagues, | am occasionally amazed to see how little interest ana 
grasp they have of questions concerned with the broad operational concepts and basic responsibi- 
lities of our discipline and profession. | feel, therefore, that Commission VI could make a very 
worthwhile contribution, if it would decide to give these questions due attention. The-fact that 
this time the Commission Board is so close to the problems of developing countries, should be of 
significant help. In the ‘’old’’ and more advanced countries there is much less pressure in the area 
under discussion. Even if their operational schemes are far from ideal, it is difficult for them to 
abandon the existing organizational structures and habits that have developed and accumulated 
through the centuries, The first, somewhat timid but significant departures from the concep- 
tually obsolete solutions, along the lines sketched in this paper, can be encountered in the deve- 
loping countries of Latin America (E1 Salvador, Colombia, Peru). One can, therefore, cite some 
most encouraging experiences *, which, when followed and further developed could rapidly 
modify the distressful situation in our field and profession. 
*— Ing. Jose Alberto Gonzalez Garcia: “The Use of Orthophotografic Techniques in a Modern 
Cadastre Including a Data Bank"', in ‘’Cadastre’’, National Research Council of Canada, May 
1974, 
— T. J. Blachut: “The Stereo-orthophoto Technique in Cadastral and General Mapping”, Photo- 
grammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, No. 12, 1976. 
— A Gonzalez-Fletcher: “Modern Technology in Cadastral Operations in Developing Countries”, 
The Canadian Surveyor, No. 1, March 1880. 
— Susana Delgado Maldonado: "Base legal para un cadastro moderna" Revista Cartografica, Nr. 
43/44, 1983. 
— T. J. Blachut: ‘’Cadastrefor Developing Countries Based on Orthophoto Techniques”, The 
Canädian Surveyor, No. 1, Spring 1985. 
  
  
  
   
si 
fo