Development of a GIS-Based Land Records Management: A Case Study

I. Yakubu, R. Y. Asah

Abstract


Lands Commission (LC) cannot be mentioned without the tags of record manipulation, inefficiency, and ineffectiveness. This is due to the manual nature of the duties conducted at the records office under the Public and Vested Land Management Division (PVLMD), tasked with managing all records for the LC and retrieving or updating them when necessary. In order to achieve the vision and mission of the organisation, this research sought to develop a Geographic Information System (GIS) based Land management system for the LC, using Tamale as a case study. In a QGIS environment, land records such as ledgers, registers, town sheets, maps, and layouts were integrated through georeferencing and digitisation. The system allows easy query of records by entering the site coordinates, generates a search report, allows viewing layouts, and documents in PDF format, and also allows the updating of records with just a click of a button instead of going through the old-fashioned method of combing through manual documents before carrying out this same task. The system, when adopted and implemented, would improve the work of the institution as speed, efficiency, and security are assured.

 

Keywords: Lands Commission, Land Records, GIS


Keywords


Lands Commission; Land Records; GIS

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