Geodetic management of rural areas in Poland is currently experiencing a kind of decline, caused by the relatively limited range of land consolidation projects. At the same time, structural problems of farms and, much more broadly – of rural areas – are among the biggest development problems in Poland. Therefore, it is suggested that wide-ranging proceedings for the so-called comprehensive management of rural areas should be introduced to the practice of geodesy and to issues of agricultural areas, which would include broad measures enabling sustainable spatial and structural development of rural municipalities, and provide solutions to particular problems occurring locally. This concerns in particular the broad (comprehensive) activities involving the preparation and implementation of spatial and infrastructural transformations needed locally in order to preserve and improve the economic (including also agricultural), residential, natural, and cultural functions of these areas, which would be intended to support the sustainable improvement of working and living conditions in the countryside.