Geospatial Knowledge - Land Administration seminar

Collaborative Workflow for Geospatial Knowledge in Land Administration

The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) which has national cadastral and topographic mapping agencies as its members and private geospatial industry as observers have developed Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA) for developing, reforming, renewing, strengthening and modernizing land administration and management systems thereby contributing to and supporting sustainable development. The Open Geospatial Consortium has a Land Administration Domain Working Group (DWG) which works on identifying enabling standards and best practices to establish more cost-effective, efficient and interoperable land administration systems. There is also a move away from the traditional top-down data collection approach by authoritative professionals towards bottom-up approaches of crowdsourcing supported by applications developed by private geospatial industry like Esri, Trimble, Cadasta, Leica etc. Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure aims to develop a unified infrastructure and approach which brings together these disparate elements and places geospatial knowledge at the heart of the land administration ecosystem.

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