Nikolai KAZANTSEV, ,
German TITOV, ,
Unreliable data in the Russian land registry causes significant tax losses in the budget of local governments. The data is unreliable due to topological conflicts which is the case for other countries as well [1, 2]. Authorities consider topological inconsistencies in the land registry errors and try to find the source of the errors. It leads to hiding errors since no one wants to be blamed. As a result, the inconsistencies accumulate making the data unreliable. Researchers attribute topological conflicts in a land registry to policies and technological issues [1, 2]. However, we believe such conflicts are natural and productive. The topological conflicts in the land registry can be generalized to social conflicts since they are claims on physical space from different groups of people [3]. Following Dahrendorf social conflict theory [4] and Popper's fallible knowledge idea we reject the attempt to suppress or to dissolve the conflicts but consider them opportunities for urban development and planning. It is not cost-effective to resolve such disputes in court. We need to establish rules governing conflict procedure. Comparing data from different sources, including remote sensing data, we find the most likely consensus option without court review. In this case uncertain risks are transformed into an explicit income and expenses with minor uncertainty. It is a win-win situation where citizens can use the land and local governments can get proper taxes. Finding a problem leads to conflict resolution, which leads to profit, so we introduce the conflict resolution procedure that discourages hiding the topological inconsistencies and progressively turn cadastral data into reliable form. Despite the benefits of the method, we faced barriers implementing it. The philosophical barriers are related to the domination of positivistic views in spatial data science and the cultural barriers are related to the perception of the inconsistences as errors.
Mots clés : land registry|cadastral data|social conflict theory|Russia
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