The Land Administration Domain Model (LADM)was approved as ISO Standard. The approval is a big step towards the quality of implementing land administration systems worldwide.

ISO 19152:2012:
Geographic information -- Land Administration Domain Model (LADM)

• defines a reference Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) covering basic information-related components of land administration (including those over water and land, and elements above and below the surface of the earth);
• provides an abstract, conceptual model with four packages related to parties (people and organizations); basic administrative units, rights, responsibilities, and restrictions (ownership rights); spatial units (parcels, and the legal space of buildings and utility networks); spatial sources (surveying), and spatial representations (geometry and topology);
• provides terminology for land administration, based on various national and international systems, that is as simple as possible in order to be useful in practice. The terminology allows a shared description of different formal or informal practices and procedures in various jurisdictions;
• provides a basis for national and regional profiles; and
• enables the combining of land administration information from different sources in a coherent manner.