Application of GIS for rural land registration
Solomon, Aster
During the past two decades, applications of GIS have made a great deal of progress. The use of GIS in land administration is one area where the technology is being used widely at the present time. Since the 1990s, many countries, both developed and developing, have been applying GIS for land administration purposes. As GIS and associated technologies mature and more data become available in computerised form, the use of GIS for integrating land-related data becomes more suitable. Improvements to the existing land administration systems are being made through developments in the technology. In order to provide both administrators and data users with accurate and up-to-date information about the land, more rapid and efficient systems have been developed for data capture, storage, updating and distribution. The advance of GIS technology to support very large spatial DBMS, the availability of digital maps, and the proliferation of higher network bandwidth, have all promoted the provision of map-based National Land Information System (NLIS) solutions. Through the adoption of Internet and Intranet solutions, the latest generation of NLIS are providing wider access to geographical information. The advantage of this technology is that users can access the information using standard Internet browsers (Coleman 1999). Successful NLIS require spatial referencing standards and appropriate GIS technology to support spatial data servers, federated DBMS, temporal management, efficient WAN (Wide Area Network) technology, and efficient client customization tools. Therefore, the application of GIS technology to the land registration activity in Ethiopia would be a suitable solution provided that its advantages and shortcomings are well understood.
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