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Focus of this paper is on the Land Administration Domain Model which is under development as an International Standard at ISO. This development is an initiative of the International Federation of Surveyors – FIG. The International Standard is expected to be published in 2012. Why is this development important? What is the scope of the standard, what is included and what is not included? There will be a brief overview of the contents of the standard with attention to its core packages and to the relation to other standards (such as data quality aspects and surveying). The idea is that not only the field-survey based, high accurate, cadastral maps are supported by this standard. This would otherwise mean that many approaches would be excluded and the world is absolutely not waiting for that. On the contrary, many high accurate approaches are slow and expensive and proven not to work. A specialization of the standard, the so called “Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM)” will be introduced. This is a flexible approach to pro poor land administration on a participatory basis. The flexibility is in the unconventional options for descriptions of spatial units, parties and relations between spatial units and parties. This means informal and customary relations between people and land can be included: land administration for everyone in a local environment – not necessarily linked to formal systems but with options for future integration.
