ePlan Workshop for Surveying Industry in Victoria - Spear

ePlan Workshop for 

Surveying Industry in Victoria 

ePlan 

Electronic Plans of Subdivision 

11 February 2011

Agenda 

• Introduction to ePlan 

• The ePlan Project Implementation in Victoria 

• ePlan Business Case 

• ePlan File Structure 

• ePlan Applications – Overview 

• Downloading Content for ePlan Files 

• Preparing ePlan Files using Third-party Software 

• Validating ePlan Files 

• Visualising ePlan Files 

• Creating an Application with an ePlan in SPEAR 

• Examining and Registering ePlan Files 

• Updating Land Information Data Bases

Introduction to ePlan 


Electronic Plans of Subdivision

ePlan Vision in Victoria 

ePlan Vision 

Principles 

Cadastral and Survey 

Information Download 

Survey and 

Cadastral Data Reuse 

Efficiency in Plan Preparation, 

Examination and Registration 

Outcomes 

Authoritative Digital 

Cadastral Information 

Standardised Data Exchange 

between Databases and Users 

eLand Development 

Means 

Survey-accurate 

Digital Cadastral Database 

Digital Plans of Subdivision 

Fully Electronic Subdivision 

and Examination Processes

ePlan Process Loop 

ePlan Validation 

& Visualisation 

Service 

ePlan-enabled 

SPEAR 


Examination 

Database 

ePlan Preparation 

Work Station 

Vicmap Property VOTS LANDATA SMES 



Workstations 

ePlan Data 

Delivery Service 

ePlan Database 

Server 


Registration 

Database

What is ePlan? 

• National initiative by the Intergovernmental 

Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) 

through the ePlan working group 

• National adoption of a data transfer standard for 

cadastral and survey information 

• Development of a system to replace the use of 

paper and / or PDF versions of a subdivision 

plan with an electronic file of subdivision and 

surveying data

National Activity 

• Finalising the ePlan Protocol 

– Final approval of the protocol by ICSM – November 2009 

– Final approval of Model Governance document – November 2009 

– Final approval of the ePlan preparation guidelines – November 2010 

• Setting up for adopting ePlan 

– Implementation timetable for each jurisdiction 

– Development of related specifications eg validation, delivery tools 

– Management of the ePlan Protocol 

• Working with drafting / surveying 

application vendors 

– Vendor forums – National and in Victoria 

– Meeting individual vendors – as needed

Technical Proving in Victoria 

• Testing the standard 

– Tested that the standard is complete and comprehensive 

– Developed an initial proof of concept 

– Conducted a trial back-capture pilot 

• Using the standard 

– Identified technical issues and needs 

– Specified preliminary business requirements of technical 

components needed to use ePlan 

– Investigated the use of ePlan in other areas, 

eg Subdivision Branch, SII, CAD / surveying package vendors 

• Setting up for adopting ePlan 

– Defined the initial Land Victoria / Registrar’s requirements for 

electronic Plans of Subdivision 

– Developed the first version of Victorian-specific ePlan data

Implementation Timelines 

• Queensland 

– 2nd half 2011 

• New South Wales 

– 4th quarter 2011 

• Victoria 

– 2nd half 2011 

• Other Jurisdictions 

– In planning stages; watching 3 larger States

Project Progress 

• National Communication 

– Forming the National ePlan Working Group 

– Standardising document formats and contents 

– Liaising with ICSM and formalising ePlan 

documentation 

– Meeting with drafting / surveying application vendors 

to workshop issues and solutions


• Victorian Communication 

– Briefing surveying industry bodies and universities 

– Forming the ePlan Implementation Consultative 

Committee 

– Meeting with surveying firms to understand processes 

– Meeting with surveyors to workshop issues and 

solutions 

– Briefing surveying forums on ePlan and 

implementation progress 

– Meeting with drafting / surveying application vendors 

to workshop issues and solutions


• Drafting / Surveying Application Vendors’ Meetings 

– National Level 

• March 2009 - Brisbane 

• August 2009 - Adelaide 

• November 2009 - Melbourne 

• August 2010 - Sydney 

• September 2011 - New Zealand ? 

– In Victoria 

• March 2010 - Introduction / Overview 

• April 2010 - Plan 

• July 2010 - Survey 

• December 2010 - Individual meetings 

• March 2011 - Individual meetings

Key ePlan Issues 

• National 

– National Specification for the Structure of ePlan Files 

• Drives changes to vendors’ software 

• Used by vendors for creation of ePlans 

– Jurisdiction Specifications for Structure of ePlan Files 

– Visualisation of ePlan files 

• One national product 

• Discussion paper on procurement, funding, hosting, 

maintenance and enhancement 

• Used by jurisdictions to create the ‘official’ PDF 

– Drafting / surveying application vendors – 

national co-ordination


• Victoria 

– Victorian Specification for the Structure of ePlan Files 

• Drives validation in Victoria 

• Specifies data delivery opportunities 

• Used for visualisation (national specification) and Victorian 

presentation stylesheets (Victorian specification) 

• Used by vendors for surveyor’s benefit 

– Possible change to Land Victoria’s requirements for 

subdivision plans 

• Currently, based essentially on requirements for paper plans 

• Some current requirements are not suitable for electronic data, 

e.g. easements, offsets, roads 

• Revision of what data Land Victoria requires is needed


• Victoria (cont) 


• Need for a Land Victoria visualisation application 

• Creates a verifiable PDF version of the ePlan data file 

• Then, the PDF can be relied upon when used for other 

purposes, internally and externally 

– Interim examination of ePlan files against surveyorsupplied 

visualisation PDF’s 

– Surveyors’ use of (up to 3) computer applications 

– Back-capture of existing plans


• Victoria (cont) 

– Abstract of Field Records in ePlan format 

• Created at various time from at the start to after SOC 

• Agreement on the basics (traversing, survey marks, 

radiations) with ePlan ICC 

• Surveyors want paper version into the future 

• Consideration of difficulty of having abstract information in 

the ePlan file as well as a paper version of the abstract – 

conclusion that this is not a problem for LV 

– Drafting / surveying application vendors – 

Victorian co-ordination

The ePlan Project Implementation 

in Victoria 



ePlan Implementation Project 

• Staging and Timelines 

– Stage 1 - To introduce and implement digital plans of 

subdivision (ePlan) in Victoria by December 2011 

• Phase 1 - detailed IT and stakeholder planning 

1 January - 30 November 2010 

• Phase 2 - design, build, test and deployment of specified 

software and hardware 

1 December 2010 - 30 September 2011 

• Phase 3 - implementation at user level with a postimplementation 

review 

1 October - 31 December 2011 

– Stage 2 – Possible further development of the 

validation and data delivery services


• Inclusions 

– Requirements of Land Victoria for digital plans for 

land subdivision 

– ePlan-enabled SPEAR 

– Validation service 

– Data delivery service 

– Visualisation service 

– Consideration of some 3D plans 

– ePlan stakeholders’ engagement


• Exclusions 

– Consideration of the development of a 

survey-accurate cadastral database 

– Requirements of Land Victoria for 

building subdivisions 

– Consideration of remaining 3D plans 

– Development of examination applications for 

internal LV use 

– Development of processes / methods for 

updating internal databases using digital plans


• National Activities 

– Management of the ePlan protocol 

– Finalisation and management of 

supporting documentation 

• Model governance document 

• Enumeration lists / LV requirements / examples 

• Vendor Guidelines 

– National Specification for the 

Structure of ePlan Files 


– Coordination of Drafting / Surveying 

Application Vendors


• Timeline summary 

– Business Requirements 

• July – December 2010 

– Solution Design 

• December 2010 – February 2011 

– Specification 

• March – April 2011 

– Development 

• April – June 2011 

– Testing 

• July – September 2011 

– Piloting 

• June 2011 ongoing 

– Production 

• September 2011

ePlan Business Case 




• LV commissioned Dench McClean Carlson 

to produce a draft Business Case 

• Dench interviewed key LV stakeholders 

(Subdivision Branch, OSG, SII) and 

(a limited number of) surveyors 

• Three Options 

– Base Case - do nothing 

– Option 1 - data based on ePlan 

– Option 2 - data based on existing proprietary 

data format, e.g. dwg, dxf


Summary 

Base Case 

Option 1 

Option 2 

Budget ($) 

Nil 

$2.7M 

$2.7M + 

(See note in 

2.10.2) 

Benefits / Outcomes 

Nil 

Critical step in the process of achieving a survey 

accurate map base 

Improved quality of data in and out of database 

which will result in efficiency gains for all 

database users 

ePlan tied to proprietary format 

Departure from national direction 

Inefficient system from validation perspective 

Some benefits identified for all stakeholders 

Additional costs to redo work completed to date 

based around different format 

Delay to realise savings and efficiencies from ePlan


• Initially, ePlans will deal with approximately 

60% of subdivisions in Victoria 

- further work needed for other 40% of plans 

• Uptake will increase progressively over 

(at least) five years 

• Benefits are relatively small and net benefits smaller 

• Implementation costs to many users 

(particularly surveyors) may be significant

ePlan File Structure 



ePlan File 

• ePlan Model is a conceptual model for cadastral survey 

data in Australia and New Zealand 

• LandXML has been chosen as the schema to implement 

the ePlan Model 

• The ePlan has been designed so that it can be adapted 

for specific jurisdictional requirements while still 

conforming to the LandXML standard 

• Extension is CIF (stands for Cadastral Information File)

ePlan File 

LandXML 

subset 


extended by 

Victorian Specific 

Data

What is LandXML? 

• A specialized XML 

data file format 

• Contains civil 

engineering and 

survey measurement 

data 

• Can be used in the 

Land Development 

and Transportation 

Industries

LandXML Data Model 

Administrative Data 

• Project 

– Project name and description, date 

• Application 

– Application used to produce the data, version 

• Author 

– Who created the data? 

• Units 

– Linear, angular, area, time, temperature, pressure, diameter, volume, flow and velocity 

– Elevation unit and Lat/Long Angular unit 

• Coordinate Systems 

– Grid and Projected coordinate systems 

• Survey 

– Equipment, and data collection parameters 

– Optical, EDM and GPS supported 

– Personnel, surveying company 

– Annotations 

– Acts 

– Field book data: raw and reduced survey observations 

– Scale Factor


Design Geometry Data 

• Points 

– The basic 3D point with name, number, description, code and 

purpose 

– All points support Latitude, Longitude, ellipsoid elevation 

attributes 

• Line 

– Contiguous lines, circular curves, spirals, irregular lines and 

chains 

• Parcels 

– Area, centroid, owner, class, type 

– 3D parcel volumes 

• Monuments 

– Survey monument data 

– Survey order, class, type, description


Design Geometry Data 

• Alignments 

– Road centerline 2D coordinate geometry 

– Profiles: vertical design alignments and sampled ground profiles 

– Cross Sections: design cross sections (1.1) and 

sampled surface sections 

– Superelevations 

– Station Equations 

• Surfaces (digital terrain models) 

– TIN – The computed Triangulated Irregular Network of 

3-point triangle faces 

– Grid – 4-point grid faces 

– Source Data: breaklines, contours and points used to compute 

the TIN or GRID 

• PlanFeatures 

– Generic geometric data like fence lines, as-built data (curbs, building 

outlines, etc.)

Victorian Specific Data 

• Administrative area list 

– LGA list 

– Parish list 

• Annotation definitions list 

– Covenants, Owners Corporation Limitation 

• Jurisdiction enumerated types 

– Easement purpose : Water, power line, … 

– Monument type: Bolt, Plug, Disc, …

ePlan Applications - Overview 






Service 


SPEAR 



Database 


Work Station 




Workstations 




Server 


Registration 

Database

ePlan in Third-party Software 

• A mechanism to prepare an 

ePlan file by surveyors 

– Upgraded pack of the current 

drafting / surveying application 

vendors packages that can export to 


– Some software already exports to 

LandXML but need to be tailored for 


– Engagement with the drafting / 

surveying application vendors on a 

regular basis 

– National approach will be an 

incentive for the vendors 


Preparation 

Work Station 

(Enhanced CAD 

Software) 


Validation Web 

Service 

VicMap Property VOTS LANDATA 

SMES 


SPEAR 

(Enhanced 

SPEAR) 



Database 



Workstations 

ePlan Delivery 

Web Service 

(Enhanced 

LANDATA) 


Server 


Registration 

Database 

(Enhanced 

VOTS)

ePlan Validation Application 

• Self checking facility for surveys to 

reduce requisitions 

• Preliminary examination facility for 

Land Victoria to facilitate the 

examination process 

• ePlan validation application 

– will be embedded in SPEAR 

– will communicate with the third-party 

software 

– will be available in a stand-alone web 

page 


Preparation 

Work Station 

(Enhanced CAD 

Software) 



Service 


SMES 


SPEAR 

(Enhanced 

SPEAR) 



Database 



Workstations 

• Equipped with validation reporting 

– identification of errors 

– prompting to errors 


Web Service 

(Enhanced 

LANDATA) 


Server 


Registration 

Database 

(Enhanced 

VOTS)

ePlan-enabled SPEAR 

• Version of SPEAR with 

capabilities of 

– uploading 

– validating 

– visualising and 

– locating ePlan files, and 

– annotating the validation report 



Service 


SPEAR 

(Enhanced 

SPEAR) 



Database 


Preparation 

Work Station 

(Enhanced CAD 

Software) 


SMES 



Workstations 


Web Service 

(Enhanced 

LANDATA) 


Server 


Registration 

Database 

(Enhanced 

VOTS)

Computer-assisted Examination 

• Automating the examination 

process 

• Making queries on digital plans 



Service 


SPEAR 

(Enhanced 

SPEAR) 



Database 

• Reducing examiners’ work load 

by modelling the examination 

steps in a software package 


Preparation 

Work Station 

(Enhanced CAD 

Software) 


SMES 



Workstations 

• Linked to VOTS, Vicmap, SMES, 

etc to facilitate content validation 

– e.g. title verification 


Web Service 

(Enhanced 

LANDATA) 


Server 


Registration 

Database 

(Enhanced 

VOTS)

Updating Databases 

• Interface for updating 

– Vicmap property 

– VOTS 

– SMES 

– …. 

• Interface between internal 

databases and ePlan Data 

Delivery Application 



Service 


SPEAR 

(Enhanced 

SPEAR) 



Database 

• Interface between SPEAR 

and internal database 


Preparation 

Work Station 

(Enhanced CAD 

Software) 


SMES 



Workstations 


Web Service 

(Enhanced 

LANDATA) 


Server 


Registration 

Database 

(Enhanced 

VOTS)

ePlan Data Delivery Application 

• Online application for extracting 

data from 

– the ePlan 

– Vicmap property, and 

– VOTS databases 

• Combining the extracted data to 

create a LandXML file 



Service 


SPEAR 

(Enhanced 

SPEAR) 



Database 

• Third-party software will 

communicate with this 

application to create 

an ePlan file 


Preparation 

Work Station 

(Enhanced CAD 

Software) 


SMES 



Workstations 


Web Service 

(Enhanced 

LANDATA) 


Server 


Registration 

Database 

(Enhanced 

VOTS)

Downloading Content for ePlan Files 



Data Delivery Service 

• Pre-populate ePlans with existing 

data 

– Vicmap 

– SMES 



Service 


SPEAR 

(Enhanced 

SPEAR) 



Database 

– VOTS 

– Other new databases 

• Administrative and Graphical 

data 


Preparation 

Work Station 

(Enhanced CAD 

Software) 


SMES 



Workstations 

• Integrate existing survey data 

sources, making it easier and 

quicker to perform survey 

searching 


Web Service 

(Enhanced 

LANDATA) 


Server 


Registration 

Database 

(Enhanced 

VOTS)


• What is it? 

– An interactive map-based search (similar to LASSI) 

– Download pre-populated ePlans 

– Download PDF documentation 

• Abstract and Surveyor’s Report 

– Data available includes: 

• Parcel view 

• Road names 

• Admin Boundaries 

• Addresses 

• Survey and SMES labels


• How will surveyors use it? 

Client Request 

Quote Data Discovery 1 

Quick search for quoting 

purposes. 

- Mapbase (LASSI) 

Job Init 

Plan Design 

Field/Desk Survey 

Draft Plan 

Begin SPEAR Process 

Data Discovery 2 

Data Discovery 3 

Comprehensive search 

-Sometimes use 

professional searcher 

-LANDATA, ACSV 

broker(s), VicMap 

(LASSI), SMES 

-Titles, Plans, AFRs, 

Survey Reports, … 

Follow up search 

-No marks left from 

previous surveys, look at 

older surveys. 

-PMs destroyed, go to 

SMES for other PMs (for 

MGA connection)


• Features in depth 

– Search 

• Lot/Plan; Vol/Fol; Address; etc 

• Buffer radius / polygon 

– Selection 

• Select data for download straight off the map 

– Preview 

• Highlight selected items on map or provide list of selected items for 

confirmation 

– Download 

• Digital data file for import into software package 

• PDF/image data in aggregated or separate files for print 

– Save 

• Ability to save search session and load previous search

Screen Mockup 

Survey Data Interactive Search 

Selected Search Area (orange) 

Select for Download 

Preview AFR 

Preview Report 

Select for Download 

Preview SMES Report 

Preview Sketch Plan 

Preview Data List 

Save Search 

Download

Screen Mockup 

Survey Data Interactive Search 

Data Download Preview List 

Digital Data 

Parcels 

- 1\PS509066 

- 2\PS509066 

- etc 

Survey Marks 

- PCM113220054 

- PCM113220055 

- etc 

Documents 

AFR and Surveyors Reports 

- LP16100 

- PS313197 

- etc 

PM Sketch Plans 

Admin Areas 

- LGA Moonee Valley 

- Parish Doutta Galla 

- etc 

Back to Map 

Save Search 

Download

Key Benefits for Surveyors 

• Surveyor is able to easily access up to date 

survey data 

• Pre-filled ePlans reduce data entry effort 

• Reduce the possibility of data entry 

mistakes / typos

Preparing ePlan files using 

Third-party Software 



Survey Software Packages 

• Currently working with 

software vendors to build in 

ePlan functionality 

• First prototypes in coming 

few months

Preparing an ePlan 

• The process 

– Download pre-populated ePlan OR start from scratch 

– Enter all survey measurements and fix survey 

– Generate lots 

– Enter all secondary interests e.g. easements and 

restrictions 

– Add notations where necessary 

– Software will provide screens to populate admin data 

(normally on page 1) 

– * Validate from within software 

– Export to ePlan

Plan Preparation 

• Differences to current plan prep processes 

– The whole plan is prepared in one package (probably 

the surveying / calcs package) 

– Features such as easements that are traditionally 

drawn are now entered with dimensioned boundaries. 

• e.g. instead of just drawing easement boundaries and stating 

the width, now the boundaries are entered with dimensions 

• same for restriction footprints (if applicable **) 

– Text / notations are typed into the package and stored 

rather than captured as dumb text in a CAD file

The Details 

• What an ePlan file captures 

– Plan Admin Info (i.e. cover page info) 

– Plan Diagram data 

– Survey control traverse 

• All traversing from PMs, PCMs and RMs 

– Most surveyors report info including 

• Datum info, datum swing 

• Some adoption info (plan references and free text notations) 

• What an ePlan file doesn’t capture 

– Occupation 

– Surveyors will be required to continue preparing an Abstract of 

Field Records outlining the relationship to occupation 

– Currently do not have the capacity to capture occupation in 

ePlan without significant changes 

– One step at a time

Some Examples

Some Examples

Summary 

• ePlan will require changes to 

– surveying software 

– plan preparation processes 

– plan creation mindset 

• ePlan will gradually move us from a 

“drawing”-oriented mindset to a 

“data”-oriented mindset

Validating ePlan Files 




• Pre-examination validations 

– Identifies potential issues before lodgement 

– Ability to annotate each validation rule 

• Ensures completeness and consistency of ePlans 

– Survey Accuracy 

• Adjustment discrepancies – area, misclosures 

• Internal consistency – owners corporation setup, multipart parcels 

• External consistency – mark names, addresses 

– Survey Examination Rules 

• Mandatory fields – road / reserve vesting authorities 

• Appropriate title connections 

• Connection of reference marks 

• Easement fixing

ePlan Validation - Categories 

• ePlan Rules 

– LandXML structural consistency 

– Should be handled by vendor packages 

– Examples: 

• VR001 – ePlan CIF Schema Validation 

• VR003 – Multipart Parcel Completeness 

• Examiner Rules 

– Manual rules that examiners may apply during formal validation 

– Most will show up as “For Information Only” 

– Examples: 

• VR020 – Date of Survey Plan Manual Check 

• VR051 – Easement Purpose Manual Check


• External Rules 

– Check values against Land Victoria data sources 

– Examples: 

• VR040 – Address in Vicmap Address 

• VR041 – Title Reference in VOTS 

• VR044 – Road Name in Vicmap Transport 

• VR075 – Permanent Mark in SMES


• Survey Rules 

– Surveyor General’s survey requirements 

– Land Victoria’s business examination rules 

– Victorian ePlan model conformance 

– Examples: 

• VR025 – Primary and Secondary Purpose Combination 

• VR045 – Road Vesting 

• VR047 – Easement Benefit 

• VR052 – Easement Fixing 

• VR061 – Owners Corporation for Created Common Property 

• VR071 – Parcel Observation Closure 

• VR073 – Title Connection

ePlan Validation - Results 

Pass 

Warning – Requires Input 

Fail – Requires Fixing 

For Information Only 

Skipped – Not applicable or skipped due to previous fail 

conditions

Validation Report - Examples




Summary 

• Rules are for quality assurance purposes 

• Critical errors will not reach Land Victoria thus 

reducing requisitions 

• About 80 rules so far 

• Not all will be in initial release

Visualising ePlan Files 



ePlan Visualisation Application 

• A facility that provides the equivalent visualisation 

features available in paper / image / PDF plans 

• Ability to view plan in a graphical format in the same 

manner that it is displayed on paper or image / PDF 

formats 

• Ability to view non-graphical data in an organised format 

that is easy to read and search

Need for Visualisation Application 

• Relying on visualisation of ePlan files prepared by 

surveyors creates issues 

• It involves importing / exporting data and human 

intervention 

• Visualisation of the ePlan file might not be a correct 

representation of the data file 

• The examination process using the visualisation 

provided by the surveyor may have used different data 

from the updating of the cadastre using the ePlan file

Available Viewers 

• Qld ePlan viewer 

– Based on open source products 

– PDF output 

• NSW ePlan viewer 

– Based on a proprietary 

– Web-based on screen and PDF outputs 

• LandXML.org generic LandXML viewer 

– Open source graphical LandXML-1.0 and 1.1 viewer 

based on .NET 

– Open source graphical LandXML-1.0 based on Java 

• Google Map / Google Earth Viewers 

– Based on API and file conversion 

– Web based on screen

ePlan Visualisation Application 

• Different views for users 

– Plan of Subdivision view 

– Title Diagram view 

– Abstract of Field Records view 

– Surveyor’s Report view 

– Council view 

– Land developers’ view 

– Conveyancing view

Current Status in Victoria 

• High level requirements have been specified 

• Some sample Victorian ePlan files were tested against 

Qld visualisation application, Google Map and 

Google Earth 

• Detailed requirements will be specified 

• Working on a national approach based on Qld’s 

visualisation application

Creating an Application with 

an ePlan in SPEAR 






Service 


SPEAR 



Database 


Work Station 




Workstations 




Server 


Registration 

Database

Uploading an ePlan

Details View

Document View

Examining and Registering ePlan Files 



ePlan-enabled SPEAR 

• Version of SPEAR with 

capabilities of 

– uploading 

– validating 

– visualising and 

– locating ePlan files, and 



Service 


SPEAR 

(Enhanced 

SPEAR) 



Database 

– annotating the validation 

report 


Preparation 

Work Station 

(Enhanced CAD 

Software) 


SMES 



Workstations 


Web Service 

(Enhanced 

LANDATA) 


Server 


Registration 

Database 

(Enhanced 

VOTS)

Examining ePlan Files 

• Extend the functionality of the “Land Victoria” 

screens in SPEAR 

• SPEAR data can populate existing and new 

VOTS examination screens 

• Examiners will be able to use the visualisation 

application to verify the ePlan data 

• Examiners will be able to use the validation 

application

Lodgement Screen

ePlan Validation Application 

• Self checking facility for surveys to 

reduce requisitions 

• Preliminary examination facility for 

Land Victoria to facilitate the 

examination process 

• ePlan validation application 

– will be embedded in SPEAR 

– will communicate with the third-party 

software 

– will be available in a stand-alone web 

page 


Preparation 

Work Station 

(Enhanced CAD 

Software) 



Service 


SMES 


SPEAR 

(Enhanced 

SPEAR) 



Database 



Workstations 

• Equipped with validation reporting 

– identification of errors 

– prompting to errors 


Web Service 

(Enhanced 

LANDATA) 


Server 


Registration 

Database 

(Enhanced 

VOTS)

Computer-assisted Examination 

• Automating the examination 

process 

• Making queries on digital plans 



Service 


SPEAR 

(Enhanced 

SPEAR) 



Database 

• Reducing examiners’ work load 

by modelling the examination 

steps in a software package 


Preparation 

Work Station 

(Enhanced CAD 

Software) 


SMES 



Workstations 

• Linked to VOTS, Vicmap, SMES, 

etc to facilitate content validation 

– e.g. title verification 


Web Service 

(Enhanced 

LANDATA) 


Server 


Registration 

Database 

(Enhanced 

VOTS)

Examining ePlan Files 

• New Land Victoria project for 

“Computer-assisted Examination” 

• New VOTS examination screens 

• New examination processes 

• ePlan data can populate existing and new VOTS 

examination screens 

• Examiners will be able to use the visualisation 

application 

– Creation of “Plan of Subdivision” view 

– Creation of “Title Diagram” view 

– Creation of “Abstract of Field Records” view

Updating Land Information Data Bases 






Service 


SPEAR 



Database 


Work Station 




Workstations 




Server 


Registration 

Database

Updating Databases 

• Automating the updating of key land information 

data bases, e.g. 

– Vicmap 

– VOTS 

– SMES 

• Run as separate projects 

• Needs co-ordination with SII

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