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

[Geoff Hay]

Hi
I am working on an OSCAR implementation as part of my PhD study at Otago University in NZ[1]. This project started with initial funding from the FAO. Given the vagaries of the land administration domain, some approaches are heading down the path of simplification and harmonisation especially for the thematic data (parcel ownership etc) e.g.[2].  I am investigating the use of OWL (W3C) to allow variation in the 'schema' and 'process' to reduce the 'cost' of adaption and modification of software.  I hope to be able to provide some OS components soon for others to look at, but the work isn't quite ready for this as yet. We do have a wiki for the initial project (https://source.otago.ac.nz/oscar/OSCAR_Home). This hasn't been maintained during the past year or so, but we are working towards adding to to the content and making updated code available for download.
[1]www.fig.net/pub/fig2010/papers/ts04a5Cts04a_hay_hall_4519.pdf
[2]www.fig.net/pub/fig2009/papers/ts06a/ts06a_lemmen_oosterom_etal_3282.pdf
regards
Geoff Hay


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From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of STEPHEN STANTON [sstanton at btinternet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 23 June 2010 10:56 a.m.
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: land records management with open source GIS

Well yes, I was stretching Tanzania into southern Africa. OK, so my radar is currently being realigned. I'll tell you where it is tomorrow. Maybe.

Steve

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

> From: P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: land records management with open source GIS
> To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> Date: Tuesday, 22 June, 2010, 22:06
> 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?


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