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LTSA Update
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Connie Fair, President and CEO, LTSA, and Wayne Braid, CEO/Secretary, Society of Notaries Public of BC The initial interview with LTSA was published in the Summer Scrivener 2016. www.notaries.bc.ca/scrivener Archives
In Conversation with Val Wilson of The Scrivener
The Scrivener: Since our previous interview, Connie, you’ve been at the helm of the Land Title and Survey Authority of BC for over 15 months. Please give us an overview of what has taken place during that time regarding changes, innovations, and achievements.
Connie: I’ve learned a lot. I spent a lot of time internally, getting to know the executive team and the broader management team and investing plenty of time with staff—visiting all our offices and sitting down with staff to talk about what works for them, what doesn’t, what they need to perform better, and so on.
There was also considerable learning to do about the business and our customers—land surveyors and the legal community, including
BC Notaries. In terms of what is impacting our customers, we’ve had excellent success on important projects.
One of them is ParcelMap BC, an electronic map of the province that will be complete in June 2017. ParcelMap BC includes all the active titled parcels of land in British Columbia as well as any surveyed provincial Crown land parcels. This is the first time British Columbia has had one comprehensive map of all the legal titles in the province; it could not have happened without the support of the Provincial Government and local governments who all contributed their data to get the project started. I am hopeful ParcelMap BC is a game-changer going forward in terms of assisting in sharing and analyzing information about property and other matters related to location. It is a significant accomplishment. Wayne: ParcelMap BC for British Columbians is a huge deal. Now the client can have an actual visual. “Wow, that’s where my property is; that’s how big it is!” That can be done with the touch of a mouse, right from the Notary’s desktop. Connie: It’s a great opportunity to create a map-based platform for access to information. The next step is encouraging wide-scale adoption. We need everyone to adopt ParcelMap BC as their base map so we can all share the layers of data that can be built on top of ParcelMap BC. We all want to work from the same base of information to ensure consistency in decision-making and other processes across organizations.
ParcelMap BC has a built-in quality-improvement process that we will soon be using to our advantage. The surveyors submit survey data to the LTSA that keeps the fabric up to date. With the equipment and the information they have now, the accuracy is much better than the surveys we have on file from 80 years ago. We put the new data into ParcelMap BC and will work diligently to improve the result so it will be the best source of cadastral information.
