This paper is aimed to description of workflow leading from loading Stabile cadastre raster maps into coherent geodatabase file. All procedures were made in AutoCAD Map 3D 2009 environment a and the SDF would a final product.
I am aware of being a little bit out of date (there is already Map 2012 in the market) and that SDF is not as widespread as SHP, but conversion between two different formats is a trivial task.
A famous mapping project with land registry system in Habsburgh Monarchy called "Stabile Cadastre" (also known as Franciscan Cadastre) dated in 1. half of 19. century is widely known and documented. So-called "Imperial imprints" of this mapping work (coloured copies of maps, present at Bohemia Land Survey Office) serve in many: