Global nature intelligence company NatureMetrics has announced the launch of Habitat Insights, a powerful new geospatial tool designed to provide businesses and organizations with...

Kenya is establishing a digital national land information management system (NLIMS) known as Ardhisasa to improve the effectiveness of the country’s land administration...

Open Maps For Europe 2 (OME2) has expanded the Open Cadastral Map by adding Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg and Slovakia in its latest update. This brings the total to ten countries now...

In a landmark achievement, nearly 95% of rural India’s land records have been digitized, revolutionizing the management of land ownership and transforming the lives of millio...

Kadaster has been instrumental in modernizing and enhancing land administration in Indonesia through a fruitful partnership with the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planni...

The annual Working Week of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) was held recently in Accra, Ghana. The location of the event on the African continent placed the world&rs...

Incorporating smart methodologies in cadastral surveying is improving the land acquisition system in Ghana. Traditional cadastral surveying is time-consuming and, if not planned ou...

Through the National Registry Center (CNR), the government of El Salvador is embarking on a large-scale project to map the complete country (an area of 20,742km2), with the 14 depa...

Today’s geospatial technology means that land administration systems can increasingly be implemented for the benefit of all. It is now possible to conceive approaches to capt...

How is it possible that so many poor, vulnerable people and small farmers are the ones to suffer when their land is grabbed by the state, large investors or local elites? Doesn&rsq...

The issues of land ownership and land use rights are high on the Global Agenda 2030. 50% of the Sustainable Development Goals are land-related. A very rough estimation for reaching...

Traditional techniques for developing land administration include high-accuracy field-based surveying of the property boundaries by certified surveyors, and may still be a desired...

It is well understood that secure land tenure is a fundamental precondition for progress in developing economies. Typically, this is expressed with a map, but the hurdles to succes...

In recent years, Germany's national mapping and cadastre information systems have become increasingly focused on demands for multidimensional applications, e.g. environmental...

There is an urgent need for the administration of property and land use rights worldwide as the basis for social and economic growth. Notwithstanding the enormous investments by go...

A year ago GIM International took the opportunity to interview the general director of the Greek Cadastre, Akis Markatos. Earlier in 2014, work had started on the completion of the...