There are defined the basic principles of the establishment and maintenance of an automated system for the urban cadaster of the regional, district and municipal levels. The aim of this study is to develop the principles (strategy) of development of an automated system of urban cadastre in Odessa region, recommendations development for the improvement of organizational information resources structure to ensure the completeness, comprehensiveness and reliability of the information for inclusion in the database and creating of source data for technical task elaborating for creating an automated system of urban cadastre of first order system. In the final result the realization of sum of this work will support the quality improvement of management decisions on the all of power levels and improvement of investment climate in region owing to providing of transparency and grounding of these decisions. Keywords: urban cadaster, automated information system, GIS.