[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: land records management with open source GIS

[STEPHEN STANTON]

Hi Puneet,

Now I'm having fun trying to guess where you're talking about! I just read about an ArcGIS-based pilot that was done a couple of years ago for Zanzibar - so is it Tanzania?

Please ignore me if you're not at liberty to name names.

Steve Stanton

--- On Tue, 22/6/10, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com>
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: land records management with open source GIS
> To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> Date: Tuesday, 22 June, 2010, 6:12
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for replying, everyone. Instead of replying to each
> one of you
> separately, I am replying to myself, primarily to add more
> info to
> this query.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:24 AM, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > does anyone know of an existing product, or a firm
> that develops such
> > a product catering to cadastral and land records
> management, but using
> > a completely open source stack?
> >
> 
> A friend of mine is working in a SA country that has a new
> policy that
> all software at the national level must be non-commercial
> open source.
> A nice idea, but it plays havoc with their current
> cadastral and
> registry records management system running on a
> commercial,
> closed-source (well known) software platform. They now want
> to expand
> from a few municipality pilot to 10 times as many munis,
> and to
> eventually cover the entire country in the next decade.
> Their desire
> is to try replicate the current system using open source
> software.
> 
> They have an estimate for the programming job, primarily
> based on the
> amount spent on programming the current system (not
> including the
> licenses for the base, commercial software). Their hope is
> to spend a
> similar amount programming an open source solution that can
> be
> replicated in the 200 or so munis without any additional
> cost for the
> software licenses.
> 
> They have seen at least one other open source cadastral
> system
> implemented in a country in Africa, but found that system
> to be very
> weak, amateurish.
> 
> -- 
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