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cadastral - adj., of or pertaining to landed property; (cart.) of a map: showing property lines and ownership.
A cadastral map shows buildings at scale, as opposed to most topological maps, which exaggerate sizes of structures to make them distinct. Adopted from French in the 1850s, from cadastre, an official register of ownership (used for taxation purposes), from Provencal cadastro, from Italian catastro, from Venetian usage catastico, from medieval Greek katástichon, from katà stíchon, "down the line."
---L.
A cadastral map shows buildings at scale, as opposed to most topological maps, which exaggerate sizes of structures to make them distinct. Adopted from French in the 1850s, from cadastre, an official register of ownership (used for taxation purposes), from Provencal cadastro, from Italian catastro, from Venetian usage catastico, from medieval Greek katástichon, from katà stíchon, "down the line."
---L.
