Brent Jones - Valuing Place and Purpose: GIS for Land Administration

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Valuing Place and Purpose: GIS for Land Administration (Applying GIS series)

Improve land records, property valuation, sustainable development, and social stability.

Location intelligence is changing the way land administration works to protect and maintain proper land use and achieve better economic, environmental, and social benefits. The stories in Valuing Place and Purpose: GIS for Land Administration show how communities, government agencies, and nonprofits use geographic information systems (GIS) in four key areas:

• Visualizing parcels and property
• Managing land use
• Strengthening climate and conservation efforts
• Addressing land rights, equity, and social justice

The book also includes a special section to help you get started using web apps, online maps, dashboards, and other GIS solutions.

Edited by Brent Jones, director of land administration industry solutions at Esri, and Keith Mann, Esri Press.

Applying GIS

The Applying GIS series explains how to become a spatial thinker, with ideas and strategies for building location intelligence into your profession, industry, or discipline. Each pocket-size book is divided into relevant topic areas that include a set of case studies and a road map for getting started with GIS.

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Land is an essential resource that supports nearly every aspect of a nations social fabric and economic well-being. The finite supply of land must be governed to support sustainable economic growth, social equity, and access to services, and to prevent conflict. Good land governance controls and manages the effective use of physical space through a combination of policies, processes, and institutions. It includes determining, recording, and disseminating information about the tenure, value, and use of land.

As countries increasingly engage in the global economy, rapid economic, technological, and social transformations also increase the demand for modern land administration systems that support the collection, management, and dissemination of complete, reliable, and authoritative land administration data. Overcoming the lack of available, standardized, high-quality, and usable land data is a significant challenge for a successful economy.

A standards-based land administration solution, grounded in a legal and institutional framework, is critical to document and manage municipal, provincial, state, national, and private-sector land-based resources. It also must support the standard functions of a modern government, such as providing e-government services, property valuation and taxation, access to utilities, and urban and regional planning activities.

Geographic information system (GIS) technology is an essential part of successful land administration and cadastral agencies. GIS provides a comprehensive platform and strategy that allows land administration organizations to modernize and meet new challenges, such as creating efficient, well-managed workflows and rigorous systems to manage data integrity and security. GIS also delivers contemporary information products and services to stakeholders, taxpayers, and citizens. GIS supports open standards, cloud computing, and extensive worldwide data and high-resolution imagery, providing the essential infrastructure backbone for successful land administration systems.

This book is organized in four parts plus a final section that suggests what readers can do next in using GIS for land administration:

Part 1 introduces GIS-driven land parcel and property management and the concepts of a digital parcel fabric, which provides a single, authoritative source for land information within a multiuser environment. Real-life stories, or case studies, show how different agencies use GIS to aggregate and standardize parcel data and handle unusual land requirements through visual inspections and edits. These agencies also use GIS for researching changes to a parcel, tracking its history across multiple edits, and sharing parcel maps and applications with other departments, agencies, and the public.

GIS mapping and analysis provide vital documentation about land information, including land records, tenure, value, and use. These capabilities allow agencies to visualize and share the relationships between land and people. The stories in part 2 show how land management agencies use GIS to create an authoritative geospatial framework for maintaining data integrity, ensuring proper and legally defensible survey records, and tracking land and parcel history. GIS is used to analyze land data to uncover and visualize patterns in land use and its relationship with other issues, such as vulnerable ecosystems, development plans, and natural features of Earths surface.

Part 3 shows how organizations use geospatial tools to anticipate and respond to the impacts of climate change on their communities and operations. With GIS, land and property managers can expose climate risk and the path to sustainable prosperity by providing a transparent, science-based approach. GIS mapping and spatial analysis are critical tools for predicting environmental impacts, planning remediation and conservation, and gaining political and public support for projects related to climate change and conservation.