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

[P Kishor]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:54 PM, STEPHEN STANTON
<sstanton at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 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?

You are off by a continent. SA = South America, not South African. In
any case, Tanzania née Zanzibar would be Eastern Africa, no?


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

I don't know if I can name names, so I am withholding on doing so
until I can determine for sure.

>
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org
>> Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org
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>> Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor
>> Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu
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