Floss in Cadastre and Land Registration

Modernization of the land information management

Under the ongoing Land Administration Project (LAP), efforts are being made to 

address the challenges regarding land information management.  A consultancy 

has been awarded for the development of a computerized Land Information Sys-

tem for the Land Sector Agencies (LSAs).

The implementation of the LIS is planned to be in three stages. The current con-

sultancy, which is the first stage, seeks to satisfy the immediate and urgent needs 

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of the LSAs by providing the design and implementation of a hands-on system 

which will be the nucleus of the final holistic LIS. It involves the design and imple-

mentation of one sub-system in each of the LSAs, computerising their day-to-day 

core business processes, so that no further manual records are produced, once the 

sub-system is installed in a LSA. In addition, a proposal of the way in which the 

sub-systems could be integrated in the core LIS to be finally maintained by the 

New Lands Commission is to be prepared.

A decision was taken early in the system development to use open-source tools. 

As a result, the database management system adopted is PostgreSQL  / PostGIS and 

SharpMap GIS has been adopted for the graphical component.