GIS Implementation at Jordan Department of Lands & Surveyby Mahmoud Amer, Director of Computer and Information Center, Department of Lands and Survey, Amman, Jordan.
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The Jordan Department of Lands and survey was established in 1927 as the government agency responsible for management and control of land ownership. Over the past 69 years of operation, the volume of records maintained by the DLS has seen tremendous growth. An equally impressive growth rate has occurred in the volume of land transactions using different manual systems and standards.
This paper discusses how the Jordan Department of Lands and Survey, since 1979 was engaged successfully in a series of projects toward the modernization of its cadastre and land register using computer based solutions for its cartographic applications, cadastral land information system, and how it applied GIS technology to integrate its mapping data with the associated ownership registration data. How GIS became the standard production tool for map production, inquiry processing for services, analysis, planning and decision making and to achieve successful decentralization in the 31 remote offices.
The paper describes why the Jordan Department of Lands and Survey adopted the GIS solution, and the main design aspects and considerations. It also presents the technical approach to implement efficient national multi-purpose cadastral information system and the steps to highlight the national dimension of GIS.
Finally, the paper reports some implementation difficulties which might be found to apply to similar projects in other developing countries and suggests some experienced recommendations as solutions.
Mahmoud Amer - Profile :
Mahmoud Amer is the Director of computer and information center at the Department of Lands and Survey of Jordan. Mr. Amer has been working at the Department of Lands and survey since his graduation in 1981 from Donetsk University in Ukrania with an honors degree in Computer Engineering.
During his career, Mr. Amer received extensive training courses in Computer Systems, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Land Information Systems (LIS), Mapping and Cartography, Geodesy and Survey and in management and administration, most of which were attended in USA, UK, France, Germany and in Jordan.
Mr. Amer is now in charge of 96 employees at the Center where he has been personally instrumental in establishing this center and in developing the multitude of computer applications dealing with all of the activities of the Department, especially those related to field survey, map production, land records, organization decentralization, management and GIS.
The extent of computerization at the Department in this field makes it stand as one of the very few in the middle east with such a comprehensive application of computer techniques and the know-how.
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