Geographia Technica, No. 1/2008, pp. 1 - 6

HISTORICAL CADASTRAL MAPS OF CLUJ-NAPOCA

Zs. Bartos-Elekes, G. Timar, I. Rus

ABSTRACT - Cadastral maps are usually the highest scale ones of a piece of land. Cities have the highest terrain element density among almost all of the terrain types. The quick changes in the built environment can be analyzed by using the repeated cadastral surveys, if they were carried out and are available for the research. Nevertheless, the availability of the maps is just the first step; they have to be fitted to each other and to modern cartographic coordinates to make quantitative analyses. Here we present the map sheets of two different cadastral systems of Cluj-Napoca (from 1912 and 1940) with the coordinate system definitions and the method to find out the coordinates of the sheets in this system. The cadastral maps of the Cluj-Napoca external parts of 1912 and the inner parts of 1940 can be fitted to the modern maps and spatial databases with an error no more than 3 meters, which can be corrected by a simple manual horizontal shift.

Keywords: historical, cadastral maps, Cluj-Napoca, survey, analysis

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