The article presents the size of the land being in checkerboard of land in the villages of the municipality Sławno, located in central Poland, Lodz province. The analysis included the surface, the number of parcels and the number of owners. The study was performed by checkerboard array capable of identifying the prevalence of land by non-residents and local residents. Such an approach allows the determination of the exchange of land between them and their liquidation in the process of land consolidation works. The genesis of the phenomenon checkerboard of land is closely linked to historical facts. As a result of the acquisition method of recording the factual and legal land from invaders countries, in the late nineteenth century, in the cadastre Polish notes to this day many inaccuracies. Some of them are the result of differences in the definitions of cadastral objects under Austrian rule, Prussian and Russian and specific rights of inheritance of land. Polish territory is variation in the severity and the shape and dimensions of the checkerboard land. So we can say that examined the phenomenon is local which determines the aforementioned geographical and historical factors. ...
The aim of this publication is to indicate the need for a comprehensive land consolidation and exchange works in the Małopolskie voivodship, to accelerate or supplement the modernization of EGiB. The study area is characterized by large faultiness in terms of the spatial structure of rural areas. Because the most of the plots in the area have an unfavourable geometric structure. They are scattered and fragmented, and their use is associated with obsolete technology in agricultural works, what is a major impediment in the process of rational management. In the process of modernization of land and building registry the measures to improve the spatial structure of land are not included. Procedures of modernization seem to be right only for the area covered by the influence of the Prussian cadastre. In the lands affected by the Austro-Hungarian cadastre (in the voivodeship of Malopolska) and the former Russian occupation zone (where practically cadastre did not exist) it should consider the possibility of replacing the modernization with the cadastral consolidations. Can the process of consolidation in the specified area of research be an alternative or support for the modernization process of EGiB towards the creation of full value Real Estate Cadastre in Poland? ...
