Lantmäteriet

Lantmäteriet is a government agency in Sweden acting as the national mapping, cadastral and land registration authority.

Lantmäteriet maps the country, demarcates boundaries and helps guarantee secure ownership of Sweden’s real property.

Among the organisations first tasks was to create large-scale geometrical maps of the various towns, parishes and homesteads throughout the realm.

[3] The land surveyors were tasked not only with collecting and illustrating the characteristics of the Swedish landscape, but furthermore to also come up with suggestions for improvements, mainly within the agricultural sphere.

The National Swedish Land Survey Administration became the National Land Survey of Sweden (Lantmäteriverket) in 1996 due to the fact that the authority was co-organized with the Swedish Central Board for Real Property Data (Centralnämnden för fastighetsdata, CFD).