Anyone who needs information about a specific public law restriction on landownership can obtain the required details from the relevant cantonal or municipal authority. Information relating to private law restrictions can be obtained from the relevant land register.

For those who need to obtain a range of information about a particular property from more than one authority, for example in order to find out which land-use restrictions may apply to it, the PLR-cadastre is an instrument that greatly simplifies the search process. It contains a broad variety of complete, reliable and comprehensible data from a variety of sources.

Existing data are available in digital or analogue form, depending on their origin, and thanks to cantonal PLR geo-portals they can be called up via the Internet. Here a distinction is made between a dynamic online request via a PLR geo-portal – i.e. a dynamic cadastre extract – and a static PLR-cadastre extract – issued on paper or as a PDF.