AbstractThe need for better management of land-related information has for some time been recognised. There is precedence for commissioning books on survey-related topics in that as a result of a resolution at the Cambridge Conference of Commonwealth Surveyors in 1967 Rowton Simpson was asked to write what has become a classic on Land Law and Registration. After the 1971 conference, Peter Dale was asked to write about cadastral surveying within the Commonwealth. In 1985 at the fifth general assembly of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) it was decided that the time for further action had come. As a result, CASLE invited Peter Dale and John McLaughlin to prepare some new material. The paper which is presented here highlights some of the issues which were raised in the preparation of their book which has been titledLand Information Management–An Introduction[1]. Many of the comments that follow were raised in a presentation at the 1987 Conference of Commonwealth Surveyors.